Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: emacs23
After installation of Ubuntu 9.10RC, I installed emacs23 package but not
emacs package, and was additionally going to install w3m-el-snapshot
package which depends on emacs package. However, I stopped installing
w3m-el-snapshot because emacs package required to install emacs22
package by its dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install w3m-el-snapshot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apel emacs emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk flim metamail
sharutils
Suggested packages:
emacs22-el semi wl wl-beta mule-ucs imagemagick wv xlhtml ppthtml libmoe1.5
namazu2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apel emacs emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk flim metamail
sharutils w3m-el-snapshot
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 71.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
The installation candidate of emacs package is the latest version 23,
but this package strangely depends on the older version 22:
$ apt-cache policy emacs
emacs:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 23.1+1-4ubuntu2+22.2+0ubuntu6
Version table:
23.1+1-4ubuntu2+22.2+0ubuntu6 0
500 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
$ apt-cache depends emacs
emacs
|Depends: emacs22-gtk
|Depends: emacs22
emacs22-gtk
emacs22-nox
Depends: emacs22-nox
emacs package is described as follows:
Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
release.
Therefore, emacs package should depend on emacs23!
** Affects: emacs23 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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emacs package depends on the older version emacs22
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462936
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