[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#920219: elpa-company: Post install script failing

[Erich Beyer]

Package: elpa-company
Version: 0.9.6-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Before upgrading to sid, I had installed elpy using the instructions
at https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy. After upgrading; and
attempting to use the apt-get install method, the post install script
fails during installation of the package elpa-company.

I was able to resolve the issue by temporarily moving my ~/.emacs.d/
directory to a different location. The previous elpa-company
installation at ~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/ did not contain
the file "company-tests.el". The installation script
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elpa-company appears to use
the load-path of my user and find the company package in my home
directory instead of the
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elpa-company directory.

I am guessing this could be fixed by setting the load-path with an
eval statement in the emacs call of the
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elpa-company script?

I probably have to remove the melpa distributed company package from
my user's ~/.emacs.d/ directory to actually use the debian packaged
version.

Thanks,

Erich

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up elpa-company (0.9.6-1) ...
+ [ configure = configure ]
+ [ -e /var/lib/emacsen-common/state/package/installed/emacsen-common -a -x /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install ]
+ /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install --postinst elpa-company
Install emacsen-common for emacs
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
Install elpa-company for emacs
install/company-0.9.6: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
install/company-0.9.6: byte-compiling for emacs

In toplevel form:
async-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
bbdb-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
clang-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In company-calculate-candidates:
company.el:1196:8:Warning: function company-calculate-candidates used to take
    2 arguments, now takes 1

In toplevel form:
core-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
elisp-tests.el:24:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
files-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
frontends-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
template-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests

In toplevel form:
transformers-tests.el:22:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, company-tests
ERROR: install script from elpa-company package failed
dpkg: error processing package elpa-company (--configure):
 installed elpa-company package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of elpa-elpy:
  elpa-elpy depends on elpa-company (>= 0.9.2); however:
    Package elpa-company is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package elpa-elpy (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  elpa-company

$ find ~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/ -iname "*.el"
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-xcode.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-files.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-ispell.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-nxml.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-css.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-eclim.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-etags.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-elisp.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-abbrev.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-clang.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-capf.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-bbdb.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-dabbrev.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-semantic.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-template.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-tng.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-yasnippet.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-autoloads.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-dabbrev-code.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-pkg.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-tempo.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-cmake.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-oddmuse.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-keywords.el
~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20190109.2336/company-gtags.el

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages elpa-company depends on:
ii  emacsen-common  3.0.4

elpa-company recommends no packages.

elpa-company suggests no packages.

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