David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > > As far as I can see, the problem is that the setup for elpa-magit and > git-el both call "emacs", but that does not exist until the > update-alternatives is called. So there seems to be a race condition > here where emacs-gtk (or whatever is providing /usr/bin/emacs) needs to > run its postinst before any add-on package wanting to do byte > compilation. > > Somewhat to my surprise I could duplicate this failure with > > $ sudo schroot -r -c test apt install git-el elpa-magit > > where test is an up to date sid chroot.
Another thing I noticed is that git-el does not depend on emacsen-common per [1] (5), I think it should. I don't know if this has any practical impact. d
