On 2016-09-29 14:57 -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: > I see what you mean. I must assume that the other packages have > survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my > package database. Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't > know how aptitude works :-)
"emacs21" "emacs22" & "emacs23" are in the package list, even on a new installation but they are "purely virtual" packages. Attempting to install them with aptitude fails with message "No candidate version found for emacs##". -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> lists.debian.org, a spammer's favourite.