True enough -- my current approach is to download the package for sid and install it directly.
Not super pertinent, other than that your response prompted to me read more of the apt documentation: I've instead added "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian sid non-free" to sources.list, and created /etc/apt/preferences.d/sid.pref: Package: * Pin: release n=sid Pin-Priority: 2 (By default packages from bookworm and sid both get priority 500, and packages from bookworm-backports get priority 100.) And then ran apt install emacs-common-non-dfsg. WDYT about closing the bug? I can post this solution on the stackexchange question that led me here in the first place. Thanks! Ted
