Instead of 0 (zero) priority for providing emacs alternative, it will
be better to provide negative or very small priority (for example 10).
Zero will be interpreted as default, and this is not appropriate for
mg, which is last resort to provide emacs functionality. Higher
priority is granted f
If providing emacs dependency will break other packages, no need to modify
Provides field on debian/control. Just add an update-alternatives for emacs
symbolic link, not for satisfying dependencies for other packages.
I just inspired by jove that able to provide emacs symbolic link
alternative, wi
This will break packages that rely on actual emacs functionality
(e.g. elisp support), such as w3m-el and debian-el.
What is the benefit of claiming to be an emacs,
rather than just an editor?
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Package: mg
Version: 20110905-1.1
Since mg provides emacs-like editing capabilities, it would be
better for mg to provide alternative setup for emacs. So that,
it will be possible to call mg using emacs command provided by
update-alternatives.
Users can issue "sudo update-alternatives --config
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