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xemacs21 package

  1. Bug #638755
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 638755

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Nicolas Palix (npalix) wrote : Re: package xemacs21 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Indeed, I don't need xemacs and purge it to avoid the problem.

Concerning the packages I installed, it was emacs (and not directly emacs23) and tuareg-mode.
xemacs21 is maybe also a dependency of the emacs package (or a recommended one).

I don't think it is a duplicate of bug #467446. This one seems to be about a problem
with update-alternatives while I got errors compiling tuareg-mode related .el files for xemacs21.

install/ocaml-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor xemacs21
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-compat.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-compat.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/camldebug.el...
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/camldebug.el:
  !! error (("Invalid syntax description flag: \"()1n\""))
>>Error occurred processing camldebug.el:
 Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"

Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-font.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-font.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-help.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-help.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-hilit.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-hilit.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-types.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-types.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-xemacs.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/caml-xemacs.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/inf-caml.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/inf-caml.elc
Done
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ocaml-mode xemacs21 emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 4.
dpkg: error processing xemacs21-mule (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)