On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:51:50AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-07 01:01 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Package: emacs23 > > Version: 23.1+1-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Thanks for making "emacs23" the GTK+ version. Would you please consider > > adding a "Provides: emacs23-gtk" to emacs23? I have some local > > metapackages which pull in the various packages I want on my systems, > > and they previously depended on emacs23-gtk to ensure that I got the > > GTK+ version of emacs. I initially figured I could change them to > > depend on emacs23 (>= 23.1+1-3), but since emacs23-lucid and emacs23-nox > > provide emacs23, this won't work. > > You can make them conflict with emacs23-lucid and emacs23-nox, I suppose > this will work.
True, except then I'd have to explicitly list the variants, which seems wrong. > However, there is a more compelling reason to add the Provides field. > With it, "aptitude full-upgrade" should be able to figure out that > emacs23 supersedes emacs23-gtk and install emacs23, something that it > does not do currently. I had to manually install emacs23 instead. Good point! Thanks, Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
