installing with emacs-snapshot results in "install script failed"

[David A. Cobb]

I have two (or more) versions of emacs on my machine.
When I try to install apel, I get an error from dpkg: (exhibit 1). Because apt keeps trying to set up apel, I need to remove it or get a daily complaint about unattended-updates failing.
The setup log is attached as exhibit 2.

The 'real' problem is that emacsen-common returns a non-zero status when one package+flavor fails to compile. IMNSHO, a situation where emacs24+apel is installed and emacs-snapshot is simply not there would still be a stable installation. Yes, I would want to know about the compile failure, but it is not a broken install!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: apel (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 22 09:56:26 2014
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Tatsuya Kinoshita (tats-debian)]

Fixed in apel 10.8+0.20120427-4.

cf.
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718765
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718738