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 -- emacs package depends on the older version emacs22 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs