I've been having some real annoyances lately with packages not wanting to install for me because I'm supposedly missing one of the Depends: packages.
The root of the problem is that I'm using Mule, from the debian-jp distribution since I want to be able to compose Japanese, read/send Japanese e-mail, etc. Now, like xemacs, the mule package conflicts with emacs, so when I installed it dpkg uninstalled emacs. Since mule provides emacs, this isn't too bad for most packages that depend on emacs. However, this is a serious problem for packages that want emacs of some certain version. For instance, I can't install calc, tm, bbdb, etc. because they all have some dependency line similar to: Depends: emacs (>= 19.29) This goes back to, I guess, the general problem that debian virtual packages don't allow version numbers. In any case, does anyone know of some way to trick dpkg into thinking that I have emacs 19.34 installed? Of course, if there were a debian package of emacs 20.x, that would just solve my problems as well, since I could then replace mule with that. However, given that it's been out for less than a month (the file date on ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu is Sep 20) I can understand why the package maintainer hasn't issued one yet. DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
