Package: dictionary-el
Version: 1.8.7-14
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
After installing emacs-snapshot, I tried to install dictionary-el
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Attempted to install dictionary-el
* What was the outcome of this action?
aptitude attempted to install emacs23, even though the dependency
should have been met by emacs-snapshot
* What outcome did you expect instead?
For it to install using emacs-snapshot
here's more detail:
Package I want to install: dictionary-el
Package: dictionary-el
State: not installed
Version: 1.8.7-14
[...]
Depends: emacs | emacsen
$ aptitude show emacs-snapshot | grep Provides
Provides: editor, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader
$ apt-cache depends dictionary-el
dictionary-el
|Depends: emacs
Depends: <emacsen>
emacs
emacs-snapshot
emacs-snapshot-lucid
emacs-snapshot-nox
emacs23
emacs23-lucid
emacs23-nox
xemacs21-mule
xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn
xemacs21-nomule
|Recommends: <mule-ucs>
|Recommends: emacs
Recommends: emacs23
emacs23-lucid
emacs23-nox
$ aptitude search '~i emacs'
i A emacs-snapshot
- The GNU Emacs editor (development
snapshot)
[...]
$ sudo aptitude install dictionary-el
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dictionary-el emacs{a} emacs23{a} emacs23-bin-common{a} emacs23-common{a}
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 73.6 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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