Re: Unnecessary emacspeak dependency?
On 2008-09-05 11:27 +0200, Slim Joe wrote:
> Can a Debian emacs developer look into the emacspeak package? I
> believe the package contains an unnecessary dependency on an older
> version of emacs:
>
> Depends: tclx8.4, tcl8.4, perl-5.6 | perl, emacsen-common, make, emacs
> | emacs21, w3-el-e21
>
> After doing "apt-get source", I have been able to build and install a
> custom "emacspeak" package without the dependency by deleting the
> reference to "w3-el-e21".
>
> Note also that it doesn't make any sense to have an unversioned
> dependency on "emacs" since "w3-el-e21" will by itself pull in
> emacs21. Thus the user who wants to install the newer emacs22 ends up
> with two versions of emacs.
Please file a bug report against the emacspeak package describing the
issue.
> I have also checked the Fedora emacspeak package, which doesn't
> contain any dependency on "w3-el-e21".
>
> My suggestion is to downgrade the dependency on "w3-el-e21" into a
> "Suggests" or "Recommends".
Or even drop it completely, since the emacs21 package will hopefully be
removed from unstable some time after lenny, and the w3-*-e21 packages
will have to go then as well.
Sven
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