[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1080968] Re: package emacs-goodies-el 35.2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I have set this in my .bashrc. Seems that the default sudo policy preserves the invoking user's $HOME variable. That being said, I am no longer able to reproduce the problem, even if GREP_OPTIONS is set in the shell that install from. Not sure what changed, but I'll close this as its no longer a p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1080968] Re: package emacs-goodies-el 35.2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

It eventually dawned on me that the odd symlinks are due to decorated grep output. This was a result of me setting: export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always -nI" in my environment. Still seems, the package should be amended to cleanup user environment vars that may impact the install? -- You receiv

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1080968] [NEW] package emacs-goodies-el 35.2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Public bug reported: The installed extras seem to work; but there are a pile of odd symlinks under /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies.el/: $ ll /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/ total 396K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K Nov 19 21:52 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 19 20:09 ..