Package: ilisp Version: 5.12.0+cvs.2004.12.26-23 Severity: normal Tags: patch
The installation script at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ilisp contains 'ln -s' (lacking the -f option) which means it fails to be idempotent. To demonstrate, suppose the package failed to install (see #850072 for instance). In this case, successively running 'dpkg --configure ilisp' to try to get things to work will start failing on the 'ln -s'. Here is a patch, very simple stuff: --- /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ilisp.orig 2017-05-04 22:26:39.707085697 -0400 +++ /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ilisp 2017-05-04 22:26:29.851048093 -0400 @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ cd ${ELDIR} ELFILES=*.el cd ${ELCDIR} -ln -s ${ELRELDIR}/*.el ./ +ln -sf ${ELRELDIR}/*.el ./ cd extra -ln -s ../${ELRELDIR}/extra/*.el ./ +ln -sf ../${ELRELDIR}/extra/*.el ./ cd .. LOG=$(tempfile); -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable-debug'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 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: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ilisp depends on: ii common-lisp-controller 7.10 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60 ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 Versions of packages ilisp recommends: ii ilisp-doc 5.12.0+cvs.2004.12.26-23 Versions of packages ilisp suggests: ii cltl 1.0.26 ii emacs25 25.1+1-4 ii hyperspec 1.30+nmu2 -- debconf information excluded -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ilisp (from ilisp package) debsums: changed file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ilisp/ilisp-mak.el (from ilisp package)