Source: emacs Version: 1:27.1+1-3.1 Severity: normal emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid and emacs-nox have "emacs" in "Provides:". It should be versioned, so that they match a versioned dependency.
The issue is the following. I have the emacs-gtk package installed, but not the "emacs" metapackage (it is useless). The elpa-transient package, which is not installed, recommends "emacs (>= 1:25.1)". If I want to install it, apt wants to install "emacs" too[*] because it assumes that the "emacs" version provided by emacs-gtk may be too low. To avoid the useless "emacs" installation, the provided "emacs" needs to be versioned, normally with the same version as emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid and emacs-nox; thus it will match the ">= 1:25.1" condition. [*] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007122 -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
