PACKAGE: emacs VERSION: 19.29 PACKAGE_REVISION: 2 # dpkg -I emacs-19.29-2.deb | grep OPTIONAL OPTIONAL: emacs-el Since emacs-19.29-2.deb contains all the *.el files, the Optional: line is superflouos. BTW, I have build this .deb myself this way (works great): tar zxf emacs-19.29.tar.gz cd emacs-19.29 zcat emacs-19.29-2.diff.gz | patch -s -p1 make -f debian.rules binary CFLAGS='-O2 -m486' Thanks for the update, Karl.