Subject: bug#10321: 24.0.92; Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot failed!

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:36:36 -0500

> Tried to install emacs-snapshot from ppa:cassou/emacs.  apt-get says:

> !! Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot failed!
> !! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
> !! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
> !! Please file a bug report against emacs-snapshot
> !! and attach the file /tmp/emacs-snapshot.rrQsds
> dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

> Here is the tmp file:

Please report it to Debian, and remind them that this "prevent
installation for mere byte-compilation errors" is a bad idea and should
at least be configurable by the user (I personally edit
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install by hand, but it needs to be
re-edited every time it gets updated, which is a pain in the
youknowwhat).

        Stefan