control: reassign -1 src:emacs control: retitle -1 emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages
Hello, On Sun 13 Apr 2025 at 08:55pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote: > Option 1 also sounds good to me. Cool. I'm not planning to work on it but I can review patches. > This may also be useful to handle security update for stable version, > though I'm not sure whether it will automatically handle the upgrades. > > (Wondering for the situation that Emacs version A provides foo 1.0, and > when foo 1.0 founds a security issue, and Emacs version A+deb12u1 fixes > it by providing foo 1.1, will foo 1.0 automatically upgrade to Emacs > A+deb12u1, or it still requires user manually uninstalling foo 1.0?) No, and in fact the foo with the security hole would override the one shipped with Emacs. We'd have to patch both packages. -- Sean Whitton
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