Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 5, 1999
On 99-11-07 Rob Browning wrote:
> Package: emacs20 (main)
> Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
> 33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly -
> /usr/bin/emacs doesn't run emacs20
> [STRATEGY] Maintainer promised to fix this.
> I'd love some help with this one by anyone more knowledgable about the
> alternatives system. I'm wondering if I might have the calls in the
> wrong places (postinst vs preinst) or without the right guards
> (configure vs purge vs upgrade). I've looked in to this some, but I
> don't have time ATM to investigate it extremely carefully.
Okay, I crosspost this mail to the debian-qa-private list, so that
someone from the debian-qa-team will look at this issue ASAP and help
you with fixing this bug. Who has enough time and the knowledge to help?
> 48997 emacs20_20.4-1(unstable): hardcoded i386 in debian/rules
> This will be fixed soon. I thought I'd do it today, but I didn't get
> the time.
Well, if you are working on a fix, it's okay.
> Package: emacsen-common (main)
> Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
> 48681 gettext: can not install gettext on a new potato system
> This one I need to look in to. It may be a real bug, or it may be
> another "problem with add-on package" that gets reported as an emacs
> bug. I'll check.
If you need some help, then just contact the debian-qa-team to which I
send a Cc of this email and we'll try to help you.
Ciao
Christian
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