Re: Bug#682719: Your gcl 2.6.7-107 upload
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 23:26 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> 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!
Apparently my hint wasn't obvious enough - I was pushing you towards the
word "virtual". See
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual
and
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s-mail-transport-agents , for example.
Regards,
Adam
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