Source: emacs23
Version: 23.3+1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
One of the first things I do when setting up a headless box is install
emacs23-nox. I've always found it inconsistent that I need to know the
major version of emacs I'm installing when I install the X-free
version, but on an X-full install I can just install "emacs". Can we
provide a metapackage for emacs-nox too?
--- emacs23-23.3+1/debian/control.in.orig 2011-04-10 11:33:31.000000000 -0600
+++ emacs23-23.3+1/debian/control.in 2011-08-10 21:44:58.987427394 -0600
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metap
This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
release.
+Package: emacs-nox
+Architecture: all
+Depends: @DEB_FLAVOR@-nox, ${misc:Depends}
+Provides: emacsen, editor, mail-reader, news-reader
+Description: The GNU Emacs editor metapackage (without X support)
+ GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
+ This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
+ release without support for X.
+
Package: @DEB_FLAVOR@-lucid
Architecture: any
Depends: @DEB_FLAVOR@-bin-common (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
