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Bug#905578: Install script from emacs-goodies-el package failed



On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 09:53:52AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 
> On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 09:28PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:12:25AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On Mon 06 Aug 2018 at 09:18AM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thank you for not overriding the default apt behaviour of allowing
> >> > upgrades to install additional recommended packages.  The Debian
> >> > Emacsen team is in the process of transitioning emacs-goodies-el to a
> >> > dummy transitional package that depends on a set of elpa-packages,
> >> > which are more resistant to the type of issue [1] represents.
> >>
> >> Just to be clear, as a package maintainer you may not assume that
> >> recommends will be installed.
> >
> > Yes, of course...
> >
> > In your opinion, should emacs-goodies-el use hard depends at this
> > time?  Also, as a matter of policy, must dummy transitional packages
> > use hard depends?
> 
> ISTM that it should be a Depends: relation.

Thanks!  I've committed changes to git changing these to Depends.

Also David recommended providing a status update to delay autoremoval
due to this bug, so here it is:

The resolution of this bug in testing has taken longer than expected
because emacsen-common and emacs (unversioned) have not yet migrated.
My best guess why is the 'auto-emacs-defaults-rm' transition where the
emacs-defaults package will be removed from the archive, and maybe
also the removal of src:emacs25.  bin:emacs25 is now provided by
src:emacs.

Regards,
Nichola

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