Bug#920731: elpa-projectile: fails to upgrade from 'stretch': projectile.el:1121:1:Error: Unknown upattern `(quote native)'

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> writes:

>   Install elpa-projectile for emacs24
>   install/projectile-2.0.0: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs24
>   install/projectile-2.0.0: byte-compiling for emacs24
>   
>   In toplevel form:
>   projectile.el:968:1:Warning: Unused lexical argument `trash'
>   projectile.el:1121:1:Error: Unknown upattern `(quote native)'
>   ERROR: install script from elpa-projectile package failed
>   dpkg: error processing package elpa-projectile (--configure):
>    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

>
>
> Note that this failure was observed during an
> 'apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade' run in the 'upgrade'
> phase, while direct 'apt-get dist-upgrade' succeeds.
> This indicates that there may be some missing Breaks against
> unsupported older emacs versions ...
>

Yes, that analysis looks correct to me.  Although it is emacs24 that
"breaks" projectile in the common-sense definition of breaks. Oh well.

d