Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Rob Browning writes ("RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements"):
> After some investigation, it looks like we might be able to change
> policy to just require add-on packages to depend on emacsen-common,
> which is reasonably small, ~150k, and could probably become smaller if
> necessary.

Why should a package which happens to also ship some elisp need to
depend on any Emacs package at all ?  What will go wrong if the
package is installed without any Emacs ?

Ian.