Bug#508058: Simultaneous removal emacs21 and install emacs22 -> no working /usr/bin/emacs

2008-12-21 Thread Rob Browning
Sven Joachim writes: > Okay. I'm at my wits' end for now, handing this over to the dpkg > developers. I've also wondered if this might be due to some improper behavior in (possibly older) emacs {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts, i.e. do our older packages somehow put things into a state that causes t

Bug#508058: Simultaneous removal emacs21 and install emacs22 -> no working /usr/bin/emacs

2008-12-07 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 508058 dpkg 1.14.23 thanks On 2008-12-07 16:39 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:07:53PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Yes, update-alternatives does not play very nicely if you remove the >> preferred alternative. Or at least that used to be the case -- >> th

Bug#508058: Simultaneous removal emacs21 and install emacs22 -> no working /usr/bin/emacs

2008-12-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-07 15:39 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Package: emacs22 > Version: 22.2+2-5 > Severity: important > > Not sure if the bug is in the emacs22 package or in dpkg... It certainly is a problem in dpkg, such issues had been reported several times before. > I upgraded two machines from

Bug#508058: Simultaneous removal emacs21 and install emacs22 -> no working /usr/bin/emacs

2008-12-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: emacs22 Version: 22.2+2-5 Severity: important Not sure if the bug is in the emacs22 package or in dpkg... I upgraded two machines from etch (+some lenny/sid) to lenny today; as part of this upgrade, I asked for purging emacs21 and installing emacs22. Now, on both machines, I have: [EMAI