Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: reassign bug to correct package
An attempt to reproduce - partially successful, maybe reveals deeper issues!
su -
mkdir /tmp/bullseye
cd /tmp/bullseye
debootstrap bullseye . https://deb.debian.org/debian
chroot . apt install emacs elpa-helpful
sed -i s/bullseye/bookworm/ ./etc/apt/sources.list
chroot . apt update
chroot . apt upgrade
# This fails with:
Setting up tasksel-data (3.73) ...
[15/1797]
Setting up emacs-common (1:28.2+1-15) ...
Setting up emacs-bin-common (1:28.2+1-15) ...
Setting up emacs-gtk (1:28.2+1-15) ...
tsort: -: input contains a loop:
tsort: elpa-dash
tsort: emacsen-common
tsort: -: input contains a loop:
tsort: elpa-s
tsort: emacsen-common
Install elpa-dash for emacs
install/dash-2.19.1: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
install/dash-2.19.1: byte-compiling for emacs
>>Error occurred processing dash.el: File error (("Doing chmod" "Operation not supported" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/dash-2.19.1/dash.
elceCdFwM"))
ERROR: install script from elpa-dash package failed
dpkg: error processing package emacs-gtk (--configure):
installed emacs-gtk package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:
emacs depends on emacs-gtk (>= 1:27.1) | emacs-lucid (>= 1:27.1) |
emacs-nox (>= 1:27.1); however:
Package emacs-gtk is not configured yet.
Package emacs-lucid is not installed.
Package emacs-nox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package emacs (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u1) ...
Processing triggers for debianutils (5.7-0.4) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.8-6+b1) ...
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20230311) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.
Processing triggers for libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0:amd64 (2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs-gtk
emacs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
BUT, /tmp/bullseye/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/helpful-0.18/ has
the broken symlinks - and presumably should not exist at all. so maybe
this helps narrow it down!
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