You're misreading the output of the installation process -- the problem is that quack-el needs to depend on w3m-el.
I can guarantee that emacs-snapshot does not need to depend on either w3m-el or quack-el. -- Missing dependency on w3m-el and quack-el https://launchpad.net/bugs/88180 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs