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Bug#431160: More infos



clone 431160 -1
reassign -1 coq
severity -1 important
retitle -1 coq: probably needs to pre-depend on emacs-common
retitle 431160 should exit when one helper fails
thanks

Enrico Tassi wrote:
> Ive just noticed that aptitude fails, cause twho packages are installed 
> at the same time (coq and emacsen-common) but the formes should probably
> pre-depend on the latter.
> 
>   Setting up coq (8.1+dfsg-3) ...
>   ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.
>   ERROR: This is likely a bug in the coq package, which needs to
>   ERROR: add one of the appropriate dependencies.
>   ERROR: See /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz
>   ERROR: for details.
>   dpkg: error processing coq (--configure):
>    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

cloning for coq as this happens independent of live-helper, by just
installing it on a normal system, independet of using aptitude or apt.

(the rest of this mail can be ignored by coq maintainers)

> This bug may be reassigned, but the 'set -e' at the beginning of 
> /usr/bin/lh_chroot_local-packageslists makes me think that one of the
> following options should be adopted:
> 
>   1) resist to failures and continue caching the result
>   2) fails and add a flag to ignore eventual failures
> 
> For example in my cases, the failure can be ignored.

depending on the failure, one cannot know if it can be ignored or not,
so live-helper should just fail complety in case of an error in a
subscript, which i'll add soon (including the respective --force option
to override it).

Regards,
Daniel

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