On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:00 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:59 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 21:10 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:03 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > Nevertheless, why build-depend on a non-existing > > > > package emacsen with emacs23 | emacsen? > > > > > > It does exist, in exactly the same way that e.g. mail-transport-agent > > apt-cache show emacsen > > N: Can't select versions from package 'emacsen' as it is purely virtual > [...] > > Same with mail-transport-agent, I am probably missing something. > > Yes, you are. The wording of the error message should give you a clue
OK, I confess I'm stupid. "can't select versions from package" does mean nothing to me, unfortunately. Looks like I'm not debianised enough yet :( Even after using debian for some 10+ years! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
