Carl Worth <cwo...@cworth.org> writes:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:07:06 +0200, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at>
> wrote:
>> Currently, notmuch-emacs strictly depends on emacs23. It would be
>> nice if that dependency could be weakened so it can also be satisfied
>> by emacs-snapshot[0]
>
> Is that a snapshot of bleeding-edge emacs?
>
Yes, it's a snapshot taken from emacs trunk, uploaded to the personal
apt archive in irregular intervals (like every week or so).
>> If notmuch-emacs doesn't specifically require emacs23, but can be used
>> with any Emacs flavor currently in Debian sid, this could be achieved
>> by depending on just the virtual package "emacsen" [1, point (8)].
>
> Well, notmuch-emacs does not (currently) work with any emacs older than
> 23. It would be nice to just have a versioned dependency here, but emacs
> is an odd package with the version as part of the package name.
>
> What would you recommend?
>
As emacs22 is no longer in sid, that's not an issue; however
xemacs21-{mule,nomule} does provide "emacsen" as well; I guess xemacs
support is lacking; one option would be to simply depend on "emacs23 |
emacsen", and ignore xemacs21 in the emacsen-common install
(i.e. /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/notmuch-emacs) script (I
just checked, and this is apparently already done). Perhaps additionally
document somewhere (README.Debian, package description) that only
emacs23 and newer is supported.
Regards, Rotty
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