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Re: Pre-Depends on emacs21? Re: cedet-common: breaks other packages in batch mode



On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:25:49AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Bug #270388 regards the cedet-common package breaking emacs -batch.  A
> proposed fix in the bug report is for cedet-common to Pre-Depend on emacs21
> | emacsen instead of depending on it.
> 
> An NMU based on this proposed fix has already been uploaded to the DELAYED
> queue by Henning Glawe without first discussing on debian-devel as required
> by policy.  I'm therefore posting this message to get a reasonable set of
> eyeballs on this issue.
> 
> For my part, I think a Pre-Depends here is crude and inappropriate, as other
> comments in the log suggest to me that this is a remediable bug in
> cedet-common's startup code; but I haven't dug into it far enough to say for
> sure.

That seems like an accurate description. No Pre-Depends needed here,
fix the damn bug instead. Should be a trivial addition of a
conditional somewhere.

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