Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2016-10-30 15:32 -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>
>
>> So I'm contemplating adding a new provides to all of the Emacs binary
>> packages (e.g. to emacsXY, emacsXY-nox, and emacsXY-lucid).  For now,
>> let's call it emacsXYish, and given that, dh-elpa's deps would become:
>>
>>   Depends: ... emacs25ish | emacs24ish ...
>
> Any idea which flavor "apt-get install dh-elpa" will then install?  The
> whole point of listing the -nox flavor as first alternative is to ensure
> that time and disk space are not wasted by installing all the additional
> dependencies of the other flavors in the build environment.
>
> Cheers,
>        Sven

I think it will have to be

  Depends: emacs25-nox | emacs25ish | ...

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