Bug#736062: marked as done (emacsen-common: emacs-package-install --preinst displays incorrect error message)
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 09:36:24PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: emacsen-common (2.0.8) unstable; urgency=medium . * Require add-on packages to depend on emacsen-common = 2.0.8. This should be simpler and safer, and emacsen-common is only ~140k, which shouldn't be too big a burden. Hi, Rob, I see that you finally went for the emacsen-common dependency as lesser evil, fine. While I would have preferred avoiding the dependency, I admit that we could not find something simple and rock solid to deal with the underlying problems without it. One question here, does the dependency really needs to be this tight? I mean, would emacsen-common (= 2.0.5) be enough? That is the emacsen-common version in unstable and would help a lot with use of newer add-on packages in stable. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#736062: marked as done (emacsen-common: emacs-package-install --preinst displays incorrect error message)
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:36:59PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: One question here, does the dependency really needs to be this tight? I mean, would emacsen-common (= 2.0.5) be enough? That is the emacsen-common version in unstable and would help a lot with use of newer add-on packages stable in stable. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#736062: marked as done (emacsen-common: emacs-package-install --preinst displays incorrect error message)
Agustin Martin agmar...@debian.org writes: I see that you finally went for the emacsen-common dependency as lesser evil, fine. While I would have preferred avoiding the dependency, I admit that we could not find something simple and rock solid to deal with the underlying problems without it. One question here, does the dependency really needs to be this tight? I mean, would emacsen-common (= 2.0.5) be enough? That is the emacsen-common version in unstable and would help a lot with use of newer add-on packages in stable. Good question -- let me investigate. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#736062: marked as done (emacsen-common: emacs-package-install --preinst displays incorrect error message)
Agustin Martin agmar...@debian.org writes: One question here, does the dependency really needs to be this tight? I mean, would emacsen-common (= 2.0.5) be enough? That is the emacsen-common version in unstable and would help a lot with use of newer add-on packages in stable. Let me make sure I understand -- what's the case you're thinking about here? Is it someone running stable/testing (or similar) who wants to apt-get install -t testing newer-add-on but doesn't want that to pull in a new emacsen-commmon, or something else? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#736062: marked as done (emacsen-common: emacs-package-install --preinst displays incorrect error message)
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:43:39AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: Agustin Martin agmar...@debian.org writes: One question here, does the dependency really needs to be this tight? I mean, would emacsen-common (= 2.0.5) be enough? That is the emacsen-common version in unstable and would help a lot with use of newer add-on packages in stable. Let me make sure I understand -- what's the case you're thinking about here? Is it someone running stable/testing (or similar) who wants to apt-get install -t testing newer-add-on but doesn't want that to pull in a new emacsen-commmon, or something else? My first thought was about possible incompatibilities of new emacsen-common with old stuff in stable. But thinking more in depth, I'd expect sid emacsen-common to install smoothly in stable and work at least as well (and with most of the known problems with not well adapted add-ons) as stable emacsen-common. If that is the case, my original question is mostly philosophical, nothing to worry about too much. Simply installing emacsen-common along with the new add-on would satisfy dependencies and fix the problem. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#736062: marked as done (emacsen-common: emacs-package-install --preinst displays incorrect error message)
Agustin Martin agmar...@debian.org writes: My first thought was about possible incompatibilities of new emacsen-common with old stuff in stable. But thinking more in depth, I'd expect sid emacsen-common to install smoothly in stable and work at least as well (and with most of the known problems with not well adapted add-ons) as stable emacsen-common. If that is the case, my original question is mostly philosophical, nothing to worry about too much. Simply installing emacsen-common along with the new add-on would satisfy dependencies and fix the problem. OK, right -- and there are some non-trivial fixes since 2.0.5, so all told, if we can get by with requiring 2.0.8, I think that might be preferable. Thanks much for the help -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
