I had used the shane etch kernel and iso to install what debian I have here. On the etch level, it's possible to install emacs and add-ons to emacs with no problems. However upgrading to lenny installs new emacs packages and these fail to install inside of emacs with several dpkg complaints. So that leaves me with a choice. I already have jove installed and am getting to grips with it. I could find the emacs packages that would have been installed for etch and install them on this lenny system theoretically then put the forbid directives in for all of those packages but I don't know whether or not that will break one or more other things on the system that are now working properly. The weird thing about these dpkg errors is that dpkg is looping and failing repeatedly which leads me to believe it's happening because of an unhandled exception that's being thrown. Any other ideas?
