emacs-nox

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Hi all,

I have the following problem:

  # apt-get install --reinstall emacs22-nox
  [...]
  The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    emacs22-nox: Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) but 5.6+20070908-1 is
    to be installed
  E: Broken packages

But libncurses5 >= 5.6+20071006-3 is not available:

  # apt-show-versions libncurses5
  libncurses5	5.6+20070908-1	install ok installed
  libncurses5	5.5-5	stable
  libncurses5	5.6+20070908-1	testing
  libncurses5	5.6+20070908-1	unstable
  libncurses5/testing uptodate 5.6+20070908-1

This unmet dependency means when I want to dist-upgrade I am prompted to
do the following:

  # apt-get dist-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED
    bbdb debian-el dictem dictionary-el emacs22-nox nxml-mode ruby1.8-elisp
    w3m-el
  The following packages have been kept back:
    cupsys hpijs hpijs-ppds libcupsys2 mplayer-nogui
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-el
  3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
  Need to get 25.7MB of archives.
  After unpacking 14.2MB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
  Abort.

I suspect that if I allow dist-upgrade to remove emacs22-nox I won't be
able to simply install it again, which would be a disaster!

Should I file a bug report, or just wait until a version of libncurses5
is available that staisfies emacs22-nox.

Sebastian