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emacsen-common package

  1. Bug #456523
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 456523

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In , Rob Browning (rlb) wrote : Re: Bug#153860: emacsen-common: This bug still bites -- and is still important. Fix please!

"Jim W. Jaszewski" <email address hidden> writes:

> If I'm not mistaken, this code fails because:
> # ln -sf ../share/doc/emacsen-common /usr/doc/emacsen-common
> fails -- since the operation is not carried-out inside /usr/doc.

Agreed, that's probably wrong. I'll try to have a fix out shortly.

> The script also bails out (for me, anyway) at your favorite spot:
>
> #if [ ! -e /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors ]
> #then
> # # Be super-careful.
> # echo -n "" > /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors
> # chmod 644 /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors
> # echo -n "" > /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors
> #fi
>
> I note that /var/lib/emacsen-common/ itself didn't exist on my
> system

Hmm, I'm not sure how it couldn't exist since it's in the
emacsen-common package, and this script is the postinst.

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