-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi.
Somebody asked me why gettext suggest emacs. Then I realized that emacs19 and emacs20 do not provide emacs anymore. Instead they provide "emacsen". By reading the emacsen policy I found this: Each emacsen main package will "Provides: emacsen". It would be nice to use "emacs", but for historical reasons, and given the nature of the packaging system, we can't. Question: Which are those historical reasons? Why the nature of the packaging system prevent "emacs" to be the name of the virtual package? Yes, I know this is a litle bit late to change, and that I will probably have to change gettext so that it suggests "emacsen" instead of emacs, but I still want to know the reason for this (apparently gratuitous) lack of backwards compatibility. Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNX52sSqK7IlOjMLFAQF9DwP/YSkqoaz40yqpwTE6C5z2eyKWjuGXMk/m DVDC0cPy7CzQqwa+GCpDGbi/2Zyzo8dZEc4Wigpc5xDQNsjGy2nW5YlYBRc6di25 sz7Kf8bfadmXEnraJ5jJm61w76eTzsT2BNiPcwOVxifCi2KwRoGjr6j2WD1cehGy Nv4gM2yNp5E= =Xcx/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
