Bug#934994: gnuplot: FTBFS because transitional emacs25 et al. doesn't exist anymore

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Aug 18 00:54:39 BST 2019


Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> writes:

> Package: gnuplot
> Version: 5.2.6+dfsg1-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: FTBFS
> Tags: ftbfs
>
> Hi,
>
> The emacs source package has been providing transitional packages for
> the buster release, but apparently decided to drop them. Because you
> depend on them, you package now can't be build.
>
> In bug #934977 I read you could depend on emacs-gtk instead.
>
> Paul

I would imagine emacs-nox would make more sense as a build-dep for most
packages.

or just "emacs", which depends on the 3 variants.

d



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