Subject: bug#43667: 11.91; unable neither to install nor upgrade from ELPA

From: [email-masked] (Janusz S. Bień)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:04:35 +0200

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Install package ‘auctex-12.2.5’? y
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
package-install-from-archive: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auctex-12.2.5.tar: Bad Request
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This is an attempt to upgrade from the version provided by the Debian
package, but an attempt to install gives identical results.

Please forward/reassign as appropriate.

Best regards - Janusz

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Emacs  : GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5)
 of 2019-09-23, modified by Debian
Package: 11.91

current state:
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(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2017-07-24"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("/var/lib/auctex/emacs/" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style" "/home/jsbien/.emacs.d/auctex/auto"
		  "/home/jsbien/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
 TeX-auto-save t
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master nil
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil
		     (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help "Run plain TeX")
		    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
		    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
		    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help
		     "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
		    ("AmSTeX" "amstex %(PDFout) %(extraopts) %`%S%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
		    ("ConTeXt" "%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help
		     "Run ConTeXt once")
		    ("ConTeXt Full" "%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help
		     "Run ConTeXt until completion")
		    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run BibTeX")
		    ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber")
		    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer")
		    ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
		    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
		    ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t t :help "Generate PostScript file")
		    ("Dvips" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PostScript")
		    ("Dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx %d" TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx")
		    ("Ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil t :help "Convert PostScript file to PDF")
		    ("Glossaries" "makeglossaries %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run makeglossaries to create glossary file")
		    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-index nil t :help "Run makeindex to create index file")
		    ("upMendex" "upmendex %s" TeX-run-index t t :help "Run upmendex to create index file")
		    ("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run xindy to create index file")
		    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
		    ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for common mistakes")
		    ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Spell-check the document")
		    ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate files")
		    ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate and output files")
		    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary command"))
 )
-- 
             ,   
Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien