retitle 584786 w3m-el: does not depend on "emacsen" severity 584786 wishlist thanks
On June 6, 2010 at 3:57PM +0100, achambers.home (at gmail.com) wrote: > Package: w3m-el > Version: 1.4.4 > Severity: normal > > Debian Emacs policy states that packages which require only that some > version of emacs be installed (i.e. it doesn't really matter which), > should have "emacsen" as their dependency instead of listing alternatives. > > This means that if some package already "Provides: emacsen" (e.g. > emacs-snapshot), attempting to install w3m-el (or w3m-el-snapshot), will > additionally require installation of some other version of emacs. debian-emacs-policy: | Packages that just need to make sure some flavor of emacs is | installed should just "Depends: emacsen". If they depend on | specific flavors of emacs, then they should list those dependencies | explicitly instead. The w3m-el package depend on specific flavors. - GNU Emacs flavors are suppurted. - xemacs21-*mule flavors are suppurted, but apel is required. - xemacs21-*nomule flavors are not suppurted. Anyway, I'll reconsider the dependency if the situation is changed. Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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