Relatedly, the AucTeX package doesn't accept emacs24 as satisfying its dependencies:
$ apt-cache show auctex Package: auctex Priority: optional Section: tex Installed-Size: 4133 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Davide G. M. Salvetti <sa...@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 11.86-2ubuntu2 Replaces: preview-latex Provides: preview-latex Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, emacs23 | emacs22 | emacs21 | emacs-snapshot, make, preview-latex-style, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1149196 Title: AucTeX doesn't get installed correctly with emacs 24 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/auctex/+bug/1149196/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs