Re: How to write emacs dependency ?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2009-11-11 16:43 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:

> TANIGUCHI Takaki schrieb:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I am maintainer of darcsum package.
>> 
>> It works on 
>>  * emacs21 + gnus
>>  * emacs22 
>>  * emacs23
>>  * xmacs21
>> 
>> I can't find how to write Depends field. I want to write such as
>> "Depends: (emacs21, gnus) | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21".
>> --
>> 谷口 貴紀 (TANIGUCHI Takaki)    takaki@asis.media-as.org
>> http://takaki-web.media-as.org/ takaki@debian.org
>> 
>> 
>
> Depends: emacs21 | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21,
>   gnus | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21

This does not give you any guarantee that somebody trying to run darcsum
on emacs21 has the gnus package installed.

How about simply dropping support for emacs21?  It's an obsolete Emacs
flavor version that has been removed from sid already.

Sven

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