On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 23:26 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:00 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:59 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 21:10 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:03 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > Nevertheless, why build-depend on a non-existing > > > > > package emacsen with emacs23 | emacsen? > > > > > > > > It does exist, in exactly the same way that e.g. mail-transport-agent > > > apt-cache show emacsen > > > N: Can't select versions from package 'emacsen' as it is purely virtual > > [...] > > > Same with mail-transport-agent, I am probably missing something. > > > > Yes, you are. The wording of the error message should give you a clue > > OK, I confess I'm stupid. "can't select versions from package" does > mean nothing to me, unfortunately. Looks like I'm not debianised > enough yet :( Even after using debian for some 10+ years!
Apparently my hint wasn't obvious enough - I was pushing you towards the word "virtual". See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual and http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s-mail-transport-agents , for example. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
