package emacspeak (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Susan Cragin]

Here's the problem.
Emacspeak has an option to add a voice/sound server with physical locations something like /etc/tty0 (I've forgotten the specifics).
If you intend to use software you are told to put in "none" in the box. And the word none is already there. That's what I did.

Well, this default option does not work.
And the package does not install properly and remains uninstalled.

So I did apt-get remove emacspeak last night.
This morning, when i did apt-get update, this crash occurred.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: emacspeak (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 6 22:01:39 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120402)
SourcePackage: emacspeak
Title: package emacspeak (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.emacspeak.conf: 2012-04-06T22:28:25.423525

[era (era)]

The attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt indicates a problem during installation, specifically for emacs-snapshot.

I have a hunch that emacspeak has a hard-coded list of emacs variants it will support, which does not include emacs-snapshot, but this is just conjecture.

Alternatively, this may be due to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688223 although I don't know how exactly.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

emacs-snapshot has been removed a long time ago. I don't think we should "fix" emacspeak to properly skip it. I would suggest closing this bug as won't fix, but as I am not sure, I am setting this bug to incomplete as feedback is welcome.

The issue is that emacspeak has a hard-coded list of emacsen that it does NOT support. We could add emacs-snapshot to it, but that does not really makes sense in my opinion.

[Jarek Czekalski (jarekczek)]

Note that this bug regards a very old emacspeak version. In Trusty it will be newer and the bug hopefully disappears.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Closing this bug (why wasn't that done automatically) as emacs-snapshot was removed a long time ago.