[Python-apps-team] Bug#735743: Bug#735743: pylint fails to install in emacs : ERROR: pylint is broken

[Sébastien Kalt]

Hi,


2014/1/18 Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>
>
> Hello,
> what version of emacs23 do you have?

 # dpkg -l |grep emacs23
ii  emacs23                                  23.4+1-4.1+b1
     amd64        The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ user interface)
[...]

2014/1/20 Agustin Martin <agmartin at debian.org>
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 04:53:52PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > what version of emacs23 do you have?
>
> Recently had this issue in dictionaries-common.
>
> Is emacsen-common version what matters here,
# dpkg -l |grep emacsen-common
ii  emacsen-common                           2.0.7
     all          Common facilities for all emacsen

If I downgrade emacsen-common to stable version (2.0.5), I still have an error :

Preparing to unpack .../pylint_1.1.0-1_all.deb ...
given is experimental at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 43.
when is experimental at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 45.
when is experimental at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 46.
Unpacking pylint (1.1.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.5-3) ...
Setting up pylint (1.1.0-1) ...
given is experimental at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 43.
when is experimental at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 45.
when is experimental at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 46.
Install pylint for emacs
Install pylint for emacs23
install/pylint: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23
 [...]
Loading 50pylint...
Loading pylint...
Error while loading 50pylint: Symbol's function definition is void:
define-compilation-mode

And pylint isn't available in emacs

Regards,

Sebastien