emacs upgrade multiple disasters
I've had the usual emacs upgrade disasters with locks not being able to be
gotten by dpkg and consequently as usually happens ended up removing all
emacs add-on packages from this system just to clear the errors. The
weird dpkg behavior happens in such a way that error messages loop and
repeat unnecessarily when this dpkg breakage happens too. That being
said, does any way using dpkg to find out ahead of time when these add-on
packages get compatible with the current version of emacs without the
necessity to download them and find out we're just into another disaster?
What I ended up removing was debian-el and dependencies and gnus and
dependencies and gnus-bonus-el and dependencies. Interestingly, dpkg did
not always purge packages as it was directed to do during the removal
process so I had to clean up after it that way too. The current version
of emacs tried to install all of these add-ons and failed spectacularly
which tells me someone thought the current versions of these packages
would work with this new emacs release and got it so very wrong.
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