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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ess
Version: 16.04-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
the update of ess package leads to the following error.
Best,
E.
Setting up ess (16.04-1) ...
Install emacsen-common for emacs23
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23
Wrote /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
Install emacsen-common for emacs24
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs24
Wrote /etc/emacs24/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
Install ess for emacs23
install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23
ERROR: install script from ess package failed
dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages ess depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.7
ii emacsen-common 2.0.8
ii install-info 6.1.0.dfsg.1-6
Versions of packages ess recommends:
ii r-base-core 3.3.0-1
Versions of packages ess suggests:
pn jags <none>
pn julia <none>
pn pspp <none>
pn xlispstat <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On 19 May 2016 at 23:04, Martin Maechler wrote:
| On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote:
| > Something more robust would be nice. Can you take a look and see why/how it
| > fails? Is there elisp code requiring emacs24?
|
| Yes, almost surely..
| >
| > In that case I could specify it in the package metadata and it simply would
| > not install for emacs23 (but that is a blunt tool...)
|
| The problem with current ESS-core ... or with Emacs 23 ... is that
| none in ESS core is saying he could try to do the work
| finding the parts of the current code that only work with emacs 24 and
| either replace them with e32-compatible versions / workarounds,
| or isolate those parts (to not be loaded) if they are not essential for
ESS....
| a combination of what we had always done in the past, much of it,
| nudged at least, by myself.
|
| My conclusion is : You declare ess >= 16.04 as "emacs 24"-only.
Now done, and closing the bug report via this email (as I forgot the close
handle in the changelog entry).
We already took care of emacs21, emacs22, xemacs, ... by skipping the (now
failing) installation step. So I just did the same for emacs23. That is
lighterweight than requiring a removal of emacs23.
| We (ess core) must do the same: Our current documentation in this
| sense is wrong as it claims ESS would work with emacs 23.
Yup. And I see that the git repo now has updated documentation too. All good.
Thanks, Dirk
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