Bug#560053: lintian: Please update "depends-on-old-emacs" warning
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> For quite a while emacs23 has been the default Emacs flavor in
> squeeze/sid. Could you please update the "depends-on-old-emacs" warning
> to also warn if the package prefers emacs22 as first alternative?
Done for the next version.
> In related news, emacs21 has been removed from sid some time ago
> (testing removal is still pending). This should be reflected by
> upgrading the current warning of emacs21 to an error.
Since emacs21 isn't in the archive at all, listing it as an alternative in
a dependency no longer has any real effect, so I don't think that
upgrading that particular warning to an error is warranted in this case.
Generally the line drawn is between something that's actively broken
(error) versus something that isn't best practice (warning), and I don't
think including emacs21 in an alternative would break anything.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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