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emacsen-common package

  1. Bug #456523
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 456523

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In , Santiago Vila Doncel (sanvila-unex) wrote : Bug#153860: prerms failing due to emacsen-common

reassign 153860 emacsen-common
retitle 153860 emacsen-common SHOULD be more robust
severity 153860 important
thanks

Christian Marillat wrote:

> Processing commands for <email address hidden>:
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> > reassign 153860 gettext-el
> Bug#153860: gettext-el: apt-get update. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gettext-el_0.10.40-7_all.deb (--unpack)
> Bug reassigned from package `sawfish' to `gettext-el'.

This bug was fixed in gettext_0.10.40-8 as shown by the changelog:

  * Made gettext-el prerm and postinst fault-tolerant, since emacsen-common
    is not. Should allow upgrades from woody.

I reiterate that emacsen-common needs to be more robust. Failing to
work just because a missing dependency WHEN IT IS PERFECTLY POSSIBLE
for emacsen-common to deal with this is just WRONG.

There is NOTHING vitally important in emacsen-common.postinst which may
not be done in /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install AS WELL
the first time it's used.

Reassigning again, since emacsen-common has not changed at all since
woody was released.