Debian bug report logs - #1644 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg Reply-To: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller) Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:48:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:48:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:40:15 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t353G-000HkfC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 10:34 PDT Received: from rdm.legislate.com ([192.77.155.13]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25225 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:34:22 -0700 Received: by rdm.legislate.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 11 Oct 95 13:34 EDT Message-Id: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 13:34 EDT From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.3 Here's a screen from dselect: dselect - main package listing (by priority) +/-=select v=verbose ?=help HIOS Pri Section Package Description ----- All Standard packages in section editors ----- -** Std editors emacs The GNU Emacs editor. -- Std editors emacs-nox GNU Emacs binary (without X11 support). __ Std editors emacs-x GNU Emacs binary (with X11 support). ----- All Standard packages in section mail ----- *** Std mail biff A simple mail notification tool *** Std mail elm A full screen ELectronic Mail interactive user agent. *** Std mail mh MH is a set of electronic mail handling programs. Unlike *** Std mail procmail Versatile e-mail processor. emacs removed (configs remain); selected (was: selected). Standard emacs - The GNU Emacs editor. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. description of emacs Here's from the dpkg run immediately preceeding generation of this display: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hyperlatex: hyperlatex depends on emacs; however: Package emacs is not installed. dpkg: error processing hyperlatex (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of psnfss: psnfss depends on texpsfnt; however: Package texpsfnt is not installed. dpkg: error processing psnfss (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: /disk/debian/debian-0.93/binary/x11/xbase-3.1.2-4.deb ax25-util tin hyperlatex psnfss installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I think it's strange that dselect presumes that emacs is installed, when in fact it is not. [As an aside, to attempt to fix this problem, I de-selected emacs, removed it, then re-selected emacs to attempt to force its installation. This didn't change anything.] Then again, maybe this isn't a problem with dselect, here's what dpkg --status emacs has to say: Package: emacs Status: install ok config-files Priority: standard Section: editors Maintainer: Ian Murdock Version: 19.29 Revision: 1 Depends: emacs-nox | emacs-x Optional: emacs-el Conffiles: /etc/site-start.el 67336a514b5873eea3341fb5421182b4 Description: The GNU Emacs editor. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. On the third hand, when I select emacs I'm not taken into a recursive package listing to select emacs-nox or emacs-x, so maybe the problem is with dselect... [I had removed emacs-x on the assumption that the emacs distribution had been upgraded such that it didn't make a distinction between -x and -nox -- I thought there'd been a change such that the X libs were included in base and all -x -nox package pairs had been simplified...] -- Raul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller) Subject: Bug#1644: Acknowledgement (was: dselect out of sync with dpkg) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg Reply-To: Raul Miller , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Raul Miller Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 18:03:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 18:03:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:57:58 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t35Jh-000HqBC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 10:51 PDT Received: from magenta.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA26809 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:51:21 -0700 Received: (moth@localhost) by magenta.com (8.6.12/8.6.4) id NAA06575; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:46:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:46:49 -0400 Message-Id: <199510111746.NAA06575@magenta.com> From: Raul Miller To: debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: (iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk) More info: this was caused by the absence of the emacs .deb file. Basically, I would classify it as a difficult to interpret set of error messages. [Are dpkg error messages logged automatically when dselect invokes dpkg? If so, it would be nice to have a "browse error messages from this session", and possibly even a "report bug, excerpting session log" option from dselect.] -- Raul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Raul Miller Subject: Bug#1644: Info received (was Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg) In-Reply-To: <199510111746.NAA06575@magenta.com> References: <199510111746.NAA06575@magenta.com> Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:40:15 GMT From tad.micro.umn.edu!rdm Wed Oct 11 10:34:46 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t353G-000HkfC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 10:34 PDT Received: from rdm.legislate.com ([192.77.155.13]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25225 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:34:22 -0700 Received: by rdm.legislate.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 11 Oct 95 13:34 EDT Message-Id: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 13:34 EDT From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: dselect out of sync with dpkg Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.3 Here's a screen from dselect: dselect - main package listing (by priority) +/-=select v=verbose ?=help HIOS Pri Section Package Description ----- All Standard packages in section editors ----- -** Std editors emacs The GNU Emacs editor. -- Std editors emacs-nox GNU Emacs binary (without X11 support). __ Std editors emacs-x GNU Emacs binary (with X11 support). ----- All Standard packages in section mail ----- *** Std mail biff A simple mail notification tool *** Std mail elm A full screen ELectronic Mail interactive user agent. *** Std mail mh MH is a set of electronic mail handling programs. Unlike *** Std mail procmail Versatile e-mail processor. emacs removed (configs remain); selected (was: selected). Standard emacs - The GNU Emacs editor. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. description of emacs Here's from the dpkg run immediately preceeding generation of this display: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hyperlatex: hyperlatex depends on emacs; however: Package emacs is not installed. dpkg: error processing hyperlatex (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of psnfss: psnfss depends on texpsfnt; however: Package texpsfnt is not installed. dpkg: error processing psnfss (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: /disk/debian/debian-0.93/binary/x11/xbase-3.1.2-4.deb ax25-util tin hyperlatex psnfss installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I think it's strange that dselect presumes that emacs is installed, when in fact it is not. [As an aside, to attempt to fix this problem, I de-selected emacs, removed it, then re-selected emacs to attempt to force its installation. This didn't change anything.] Then again, maybe this isn't a problem with dselect, here's what dpkg --status emacs has to say: Package: emacs Status: install ok config-files Priority: standard Section: editors Maintainer: Ian Murdock Version: 19.29 Revision: 1 Depends: emacs-nox | emacs-x Optional: emacs-el Conffiles: /etc/site-start.el 67336a514b5873eea3341fb5421182b4 Description: The GNU Emacs editor. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. On the third hand, when I select emacs I'm not taken into a recursive package listing to select emacs-nox or emacs-x, so maybe the problem is with dselect... [I had removed emacs-x on the assumption that the emacs distribution had been upgraded such that it didn't make a distinction between -x and -nox -- I thought there'd been a change such that the X libs were included in base and all -x -nox package pairs had been simplified...] -- Raul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller) Subject: Bug#1644 acknowledged by developer (was: dselect out of sync with dpkg) References: In-Reply-To: This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report. Responsibility for it has been taken by one of the developers, namely Ian Jackson . You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly, if you have not already done so. If not, please contact them directly, or email debian-bugs@pixar.com or myself. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:33:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:33:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:31:59 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3BWo-0006FbC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:29 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA17085 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:29:18 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0t3BWf-000C00C; Thu, 12 Oct 95 01:29 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 12 Oct 95 00:55 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 00:55 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Raul Miller writes ("Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg"): > More info: > > this was caused by the absence of the emacs .deb file. Basically, I > would classify it as a difficult to interpret set of error messages. What, precisely, would you like the programs to have said, and can you think of a way of implementing it ? Did you try running dpkg --audit ? > [Are dpkg error messages logged automatically when dselect invokes > dpkg? If so, it would be nice to have a "browse error messages from > this session", and possibly even a "report bug, excerpting session > log" option from dselect.] No, error messages aren't logged automatically - this is on the buglist as #957. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1644: Info received (was Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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