Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > Probably we're talking at cross-purposes here, but surely the new flavor > should provide emacs25 just as the existing emacs25-nox and > emacs25-lucid flavors already do?
As far as I understand it, nothing can provide emacs25 except for the emacs25 binary package (because emacs25 already exists as a binary package)[1]. Hence the need for "something else" for the "provides", and so far it sounds like {emacs,xemacs}XY-any might be least worst. But even with that, as suggeste, I think we'll be stuck with 2 deps per-flavor because virtual-only deps are disagreeable, e.g.: emacs25-nox | emacs25-any | emacs24-nox | emacs24-any [1] Which is also why (iirc) for a long time there was no emacs meta-package (because before emacs19 (I think), the Emacs package was just "emacs"). Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4