Re: Bug#65320: gettext: fails on postinst

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

> Hello.
> 
> I have re-read the logs for this bug from the beginning, and I see
> that I have been wrongly assuming (sorry!) that a Depends: emacsen-common in
> gettext would force the user to install some emacs flavour, but in fact
> emacsen-common just says:
> 
> Depends: bsdmainutils
> 
> Just in case I'm missing anything: Am I right that it's completely
> possible to install emacsen-common and not installing any emacs flavour?
> 
> [ emacsen-common is a relatively small package. Making gettext to
> depend on it, even if you don't plan to use emacs po-mode at all,
> would not be such a tragedy ].

Quick questions:

debian-emacs-policy says:

  D) Each add-on package must declare relevant dependencies on other
     packages (including other add-on packages).  Note that add-on
     packages should not depend on emacsen-common directly, but rather
     on either the virtual package "emacsen" (see below), or some
     appropriate combination of flavors (i.e. Depends: emacs20 |
     emacs19).  In addition, any tools needed by the install/remove
     scripts must be listed as package dependencies.  For example,
     many add-on packages will probably use make in the install
     script, so they need to add "Depends: make" to their control
     file.  emacsen-common will make sure that the install/remove
     scripts are ordered to respect inter-add-on package dependencies.

1- So _can_ we depend directly on emacsen-common (Note that I wasn't
 doing that for a larger package that contained an Emacs mode, so I've
 learned something already).

2- 'install' is in the package 'fileutils' and not 'make'.  Is that what
 was meant here?

Peter