Bug#905735: emacs-goodies-el: postinst failure due to missing lcomp.el
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 22:50:16 -0400,
Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> It is highly probable that this bug occurred due to breaking changes
> introduced with emacsen-common 3.0.2, rather than from removal of this
> file.
But I have emacsen-common 2.0.8 installed as per the report.
>> -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing
>> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64
>> (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386
> I see you're mixing testing and unstable. Are you willing to test an
> upgrade to unversioned emacs? It would be a valuable data-point to
> solving this emacs-goodies-el bug! If so, please use the following
> procedure:
> # This bit returns goodies to the state it was for Stretch
> apt purge --autoremove emacs-goodies-el
> wget https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20161122T032842Z/pool/main/e/emacs-goodies-el/emacs-goodies-el_36.3_all.deb
> # this next line might be paranoia
> apt autoremove --purge
> # and finally install the package
> dpkg -i emacs-goodies-el_36.3_all.deb
> # This installs emacs-goodies-el from stretch, and will pull in the
> new unversioned emacs. Please note the list of packages, in case you
> need to roll back.
> apt install emacs-goodies-el=40.1
The last step failed for me:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
emacs-goodies-el : Depends: emacsen-common (>= 3.0.2) but 2.0.8 is to be installed
Recommends: elpa-bm but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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But succeeded by letting it choose my default testing version of the
package (40.0):
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$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
emacs-goodies-el
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/96.4 kB of archives. After unpacking 3,177 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 682251 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../emacs-goodies-el_40.0_all.deb ...
Remove emacs-goodies-el for emacs25
remove/emacs-goodies-el: purging byte-compiled files for emacs25
Unpacking emacs-goodies-el (40.0) over (36.3) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-4) ...
Setting up emacs-goodies-el (40.0) ...
Install emacsen-common for emacs25
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs25
Install emacs-goodies-el for emacs25
install/emacs-goodies-el: Handling emacs25, logged in /tmp/elc_b2o0sx.log
Building autoloads for emacs25 in /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el
install/emacs-goodies-el: Deleting /tmp/elc_b2o0sx.log
Current status: 0 (-1) upgradable.
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Thank you for your quick follow-up and hopefully this is useful.
--
Seb
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