Your message dated Tue, 17 May 2016 05:21:09 -0500 with message-id <[email protected]> has caused the report #824527, regarding ess (16.04-1) fails to install to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s)
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--- Begin Message ---Martin et al, On 17 May 2016 at 09:15, Eric Chassande-Mottin wrote: | Package: ess | Version: 16.04-1 | Severity: important | | Dear Maintainer, | | the update of ess package leads to the following error. | | Best, | E. | | | Setting up ess (16.04-1) ... | Install emacsen-common for emacs23 | emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23 | Wrote /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc | Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc | Install emacsen-common for emacs24 | emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs24 | Wrote /etc/emacs24/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc | Wrote /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc | Install ess for emacs23 | install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23 | ERROR: install script from ess package failed | dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure): | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I can confirm the bug report by Eric, I saw it too -- and just uninstalled emacs23 on the affected system. Something more robust would be nice. Can you take a look and see why/how it fails? Is there elisp code requiring emacs24? In that case I could specify it in the package metadata and it simply would not install for emacs23 (but that is a blunt tool...) Dirk | -- System Information: | Debian Release: stretch/sid | APT prefers testing | APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'stable') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | Foreign Architectures: i386 | | Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash | Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) | | Versions of packages ess depends on: | ii dpkg 1.18.7 | ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 | ii install-info 6.1.0.dfsg.1-6 | | Versions of packages ess recommends: | ii r-base-core 3.3.0-1 | | Versions of packages ess suggests: | pn jags <none> | pn julia <none> | pn pspp <none> | pn xlispstat <none> | | -- no debconf information -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
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