With permission from the maintainer, I've uploaded an NMU which should fix this. Using --with-emacs=/bin/true didn't produce a functional package (at least not for emacs23), so these changes just shift the dependencies away from emacs21.
Here are the changes in 1.2:
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index fa8a084..cad7dd4 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +bbdb (2.35.cvs20060204-1.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * NMU with the permission of the maintainer to adjust the dependencies + to accommodate the removal of emacs21. Change the emacs21 dependency + to emacs23 and the emacs21 build dependency to emacs22 or emacs23. + Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>. (Closes: #478799) + + -- Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:16:02 -0700 + bbdb (2.35.cvs20060204-1.1) unstable; urgency=low * NMU with the permission of the maintainer. diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index fdaacdc..ccf42f0 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ Source: bbdb Section: mail Priority: optional Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> -Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.2.0), texinfo, texi2html, emacs21 +Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.2.0), emacs22 | emacs23, texinfo, texi2html Standards-Version: 3.6.2.0 Package: bbdb Architecture: all -Depends: make, emacs21 | emacsen +Depends: make, emacs23 | emacsen Suggests: vm, w3-el-e21, gnuserv, gnus|t-gnus, perl Description: The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs BBDB is a rolodex-like database program for GNU Emacs. BBDB stands
-- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
