[cl-debian] Bug#414682: cl-swank: trying to connect to new SBCL from Emacs throws a CL error

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 10:44, Drake Wilson wrote:
> Quoth Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd at debian.org>, on 2007-03-14 10:39:25 +0100:
> > So I'm guessing your cl-swank and slime packages are out of sync and the
> > backwards compatibility of slime leaves something to be desired.
> 
> I'm not sure how this can be, though.  From the output of [dpkg -l
> cl-swank slime]:
> 
> ii  cl-swank                          20061201-2                        Superior LISP Interaction Mode for Emacs (Lisp-side server)
> ii  slime                             20061201-2                        Superior LISP Interaction Mode for Emacs

Hmm. Could you try removing and reinstalling the slime package?

> I suppose it's possible some byte-compiled-files have gotten out of
> date somewhere or something, but I thought the Debian Lisp
> infrastructure was supposed to handle all that automatically.  Other

It should.

> than that, AFAICT these are the same version.  Unless there's another
> package that also needs to be synced that I'm missing... ?

None that I know, sometimes the emacs version is important, but not 
in this case.

Groetjes, Peter

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