Can a Debian emacs developer look into the emacspeak package? I
believe the package contains an unnecessary dependency on an older
version of emacs:

Depends: tclx8.4, tcl8.4, perl-5.6 | perl, emacsen-common, make, emacs
| emacs21, w3-el-e21

After doing "apt-get source", I have been able to build and install a
custom "emacspeak" package without the dependency by deleting the
reference to "w3-el-e21".

Note also that it doesn't make any sense to have an unversioned
dependency on "emacs" since "w3-el-e21" will by itself pull in
emacs21. Thus the user who wants to install the newer emacs22 ends up
with two versions of emacs.

I have also checked the Fedora emacspeak package, which doesn't
contain any dependency on "w3-el-e21".

My suggestion is to downgrade the dependency on "w3-el-e21" into a
"Suggests" or "Recommends".


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