On 2016-11-01 17:36 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > >> I have. ;-) >> >> ,---- >> | $ apt-cache show emacs25-nox | grep ^Provides: >> | Provides: editor, emacs25, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader >> `---- > > Heh, well that's a touch embarrassing. > > Perhaps I was remembering something that's long been obviated, or just > misremebering entirely. > > Oh, maybe I was just conflating the rule (there was one, right?) that > prevented a binary package from replacing a virtual package (i.e. we had > to wait for a while before we could have emacs-defaults provide an emacs > package). > > Regardless, it sounds like maybe dh-elpa can just depend on emacs25 and > forget about it? I'm guessing any variant should be fine for its > build-time needs.
It should probably use the -nox flavor as first preferred alternative, since otherwise apt will install the real emacs25 package with all its additional dependencies which you want to avoid in a build chroot. Cheers, Sven