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On 01.08.2012 13:04, Axel Beckert wrote:
Rob Browning wrote:
I made a bit of a mess with respect to the emacs metapackage in
unstable
and wheezy that I'd like to fix.
The problem is that both emacs23 and emacs24 provide the emacs
metapackage,
[...]
One plausible solution would be to just move the emacs metapackage
to
its own emacs-defaults source package (a la gcc-defaults), and so a
bit
of discussion on IRC produced a plan that I'd like to vet here:
- Upload a new emacs23 to for wheezy that doesn't provide the
emacs binary.
- Upload a new emacs-defaults for wheezy that provides the emacs
binary.
- Upload a new emacs24 to unstable that doesn't provide the emacs
binary.
With "providing binary", do you mean "building a binary package" or
"containing a compiled binary file" as in "/usr/bin/emacs"?
The latter would likely break update-alternatives and non-trivial to
package, so I suspect you think of the emacs binary-_package_ being
built by the new emacs-defaults source-package.
That's what was discussed on IRC, yes. emacs-defaults would be a new
source package building a single arch:all binary package named "emacs",
with the same semantics as the existing package of that name produced
from emacs2{3,4}.
With regards to the version of the emacs-defaults source package (or
at least the new emacs binary-package, AFAICS it'll need an epoch
added to go down from 24 to 23 again, i.e. use "1:23.$something".
Well, "1:23" would seem to work fine as well, given that it would
presumably be a native package.
Rob - as no-one has raised any objections or other suggestions, I think
we should move forward with this. Assuming it matches the plan as
above, please feel free to go ahead with the upload of emacs-defaults
and let us know once it hits NEW so that we can smile nicely at the
ftp-team. I'd suggest we get that step sorted out before the uploads of
emacs2{3,4} dropping the meta-package.
Regards,
Adam
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