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Bug#610574: dictionaries-common: Installation fails because of Elisp compilation failure

January 19th, 2011 - 08:20 pm ET by Stefan Monnier | Report spam
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Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 1.5.17
Severity: important

Installation of dictionaries-common failed as follows:

Setting up dictionaries-common (1.5.17) ...
install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs20
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp' does not
exist.
Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp
/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el:
!! Symbol's function definition is void ((executable-find))
Done
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-
common emacs20 emacs19 emacs20 emacs21 emacs22 emacs23 xemacs21 failed at
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1.
dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
dictionaries-common

Failure to byte-compile those non-essential Elisp files should clearly not
prevent installation of the package.



Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-2 converts between character sets in

dictionaries-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dictionaries-common suggests:
ii emacsen-common 1.4.22 Common facilities for all emacsen
pn ispell <none> (no description available)
pn jed-extra <none> (no description available)

dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value:
dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message:
dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true
dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default:
dictionaries-common/default-ispell:
dictionaries-common/default-wordlist:
dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true
dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false



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#1 Agustin Martin
January 20th, 2011 - 07:10 am ET | Report spam
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:09:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 1.5.17
Severity: important



Hi, Stefan, nice to read you here,

Installation of dictionaries-common failed as follows:

Setting up dictionaries-common (1.5.17) ...
install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs20



emacs20??

Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp' does not
exist.
Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp
/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el:
!! Symbol's function definition is void ((executable-find))
Done
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-
common emacs20 emacs19 emacs20 emacs21 emacs22 emacs23 xemacs21 failed at



emacs19??

/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1.
dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
dictionaries-common



The reason for this failure was that I missed to explicitly add ancient (last
upload was on 2005) emacs20 Debian package to the list of exclusions (emacs19
and emacs-snapshot at that time). IIRC, the reason behind that miss was that
at some time emacs20 package was not installable at all along with the rest
of Debian and package manager program decided to remove it because of some
incompatibility, so I forgot to add the extra harmless exclusion. Seems that
incompatibiity finally disappeared or you managed to work around it (or I
remember wrong, cannot find relevant info).

A wider list of exclusions will be uploaded once squeeze is released,
including emacs19 emacs20 emacs21 and emacs22, so only emacs23 and xemacs21
are enabled and the other, if present, use pristine code. In the meantime,
I am afraid there is nothing that can be done about this, we are in deep
freeze (squeeze is temptatively scheduled for early February) and fixing
things to work with an ancient emacs flavour is not the kind of things
release managers will consider important enough at this stage of release.

Failure to byte-compile those non-essential Elisp files should clearly not
prevent installation of the package.



This part belongs to the emacsen-common package, which contains Debian policy
for emacsen and auxiliary tools. I personally think is correct to catch the
error and fail, that increases probability of bug reporting and fixing.

Thanks for yor feedback,

Agustin



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