On 2008-10-25 08:46 +0200, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:15:48AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> > - apt-get dist-upgrade then does the upgrade from emacs21 in Etch to
>> > the one in Lenny. Nowhere does it pull in emacs22.
>>
>> Install the `emacs' metapackage in etch, this will pull in emacs22 in
>> lenny.
>
> Sorry for missing this.
>
>> > - I then installed emacs22, and faced no problems.
>> > - I finally also did apt-get --reinstall install emacs-goodies-el, and
>> > that also caused no problems.
>> >
>> > Could you please clarify the particular situation where you can
>> > reproduce this bug? Maybe I am missing something in my attempt to
>> > replicate this problem.
>>
>> Remove packages providing mail-transport-agent and mailx from the chroot
>> first. BTW, this problem is not limited to upgrades, it will also
>> happen in new installs, provided that neither /usr/sbin/sendmail nor
>> /usr/bin/mail exist.
>
> Thanks for the description. Would this be related to #502762, which
> also occurs for a similar reason?
Yes, I have already written a follow-up¹ to #503340, sorry that I forgot
to CC you in that mail.
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503340#25
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