Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

["Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>]

On 5/8/06, Carl D. Blake <carl@boeckeler.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days
> and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is broken.
> I keep waiting thinking that the problem will be resolved, but nothing
> has been done about it.  aptitude reports that the following packages
> have unmet dependencies:
>         emacs21-bin-common: Depends: emacs21-common (=21.4a-3) but it is not
> installable
>
> I've noticed that emacs21-common 21.4a-3.1 is available, but when I
> install that version aptitude reports that emacs21-bin-common needs
> 21.4a-3, but 21.4a-3.1 is installed.

A bug report was filed something like a week ago.  It's being worked
on.  It sounds like it was a non-trivial issue.

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