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Re: Bug#682719: Your gcl 2.6.7-107 upload



On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:00 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:59 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 21:10 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:03 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > Nevertheless, why build-depend on a non-existing
> > > > package emacsen with emacs23 | emacsen?
> > > 
> > > It does exist, in exactly the same way that e.g. mail-transport-agent
> >  apt-cache show emacsen
> > N: Can't select versions from package 'emacsen' as it is purely virtual
> [...]
> > Same with mail-transport-agent, I am probably missing something.
> 
> Yes, you are. The wording of the error message should give you a clue

OK, I confess I'm stupid. "can't select versions from package" does
mean nothing to me, unfortunately. Looks like I'm not debianised
enough yet :( Even after using debian for some 10+ years!


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