Bug#618658: gtk-doc-tools: prerm script returns an error, it seems to depend on emacsen-common being fully configured

Lucas B. Cohen lbc at bnrlabs.com
Thu Mar 17 11:06:21 UTC 2011


Package: gtk-doc-tools
Version: 1.15-2
Severity: minor
File: gtk-doc-tools

When upgrading a system from Lenny to Squeeze (dist-upgrade phase), dpkg ran into trouble tyring to upgrade this
package. Being unfamiliar with both the GTK development environment, and emacs, here is the relevant output which
I will leave to a more competent person to interpret.


---- BEING APT-GET / DPKG OUTPUT ----
Preparing to replace gtk-doc-tools 1.10-1 (using .../gtk-doc-tools_1.15-2_all.deb) ...
ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.
ERROR: This is likely a bug in the gtk-doc-tools package, which needs to
ERROR: add one of the appropriate dependencies.
ERROR: See /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz
ERROR: for details.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-doc-tools_1.15-2_all.deb (--unpack):
 there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-doc-tools_1.15-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
---- END APT-GET / DPKG OUTPUT ----

Apologies if this is irrelevant.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (995, 'stable'), (600, 'oldstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gtk-doc-tools depends on:
ii  docbook-dsssl           1.79-6           modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
ii  docbook-to-man          1:2.0.0-28       converter from DocBook SGML into r
ii  docbook-xml             4.5-7            standard XML documentation system 
ii  docbook-xsl             1.75.2+dfsg-5    stylesheets for processing DocBook
ii  gnome-common            2.28.0-1         common scripts and macros to devel
ii  highlight               2.16-1           Universal source code to formatted
ii  jade                    1.2.1-47         James Clark's DSSSL Engine
ii  perl                    5.10.1-17        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  xsltproc                1.1.26-6         XSLT 1.0 command line processor

Versions of packages gtk-doc-tools recommends:
ii  pkg-config                    0.25-1.1   manage compile and link flags for 

gtk-doc-tools suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information






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