On sam, 2004-08-07 at 22:18 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I have just done the following with no problems: > > # apt-get remove gnus-bonus-el gnus > # apt-get install semi wl t-gnus > # apt-get install gnus-bonus-el > > with no errors at all. > > Perhaps this was fixed in a release after the one you have installed > (which appears to be 1.14.6+0.20040). > > Can you try with a more recent version of the package and tell me if > you still see the bug?
Yes: # apt-get install gnus-bonus-el Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gnus-bonus-el 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 67,9kB of archives. After unpacking 315kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main gnus-bonus-el 24.6-2 [67,9kB] Fetched 67,9kB in 10s (6188B/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Selecting previously deselected package gnus-bonus-el. (Reading database ... 841687 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gnus-bonus-el (from .../gnus-bonus-el_24.6-2_all.deb) ... Setting up gnus-bonus-el (24.6-2) ... install/gnus-bonus-el: Handling emacs20, logged in /tmp/elc_VSpcM6.log emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gnus-bonus-el emacs20 emacs20 emacs21xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1. dpkg: error processing gnus-bonus-el (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: gnus-bonus-el E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Here are versions of related packages installed on this system: ii t-gnus 6.15.8.00-1.1 A branch of Semi-gnus (Gnus for SEMI) variants. ii semi 1.14.6+0.20040803-1 library to provide MIME feature for Emacsen ii wl 2.10.1+0.20040728-2 Yet Another Message Interface on Emacsen Here is the /tmp/elc_VSpcM6.log logfile: emacs20 -q -no-site-file --no-site-file -batch -l path.el -f batch-byte-compile gnus-eyecandy.el gnus-filterhist.el gnus-junk.el gnus-outlook-deuglify.el gnus-pers.el message-x.el nnir.el nnnil.el nntodo.el spam-stat.el Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp' does not exist. Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/gnus-eyecandy.elc While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/gnus-filterhist.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/gnus-junk.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/gnus-outlook-deuglify.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/gnus-pers.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/message-x.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/nnir.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/nnnil.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/nntodo.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "pces-20")) Loading cl-extra... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/gnus-bonus-el/spam-stat.elc Done Here are the pces-20 elisp files installed on this system: $ dlocate pces-20 xemacs21-basesupport: /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/apel/pces-20.elc apel: /usr/share/apel/pces-20.el xemacs21-basesupport-el: /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/apel/pces-20.el.gz and package versions: ii xemacs21-basesuppor 2004.05.17-1 Editor and kitchen sink -- compiled elisp support file ii apel 10.6+0.20040418-1 a portable Emacs library But since emacs20 has been removed from Debian this bug can not be considered as "grave". However, if gnus-bonus-el does not work with emacs20, it should perhaps have a conflict in its dependencies. -- Laurent Bonnaud. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/