Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I think it is not correct to use emacs21 | emacsen in the
> Build-Depends-Indep field, since, AFIK, the xemacs packages provide
> emacsen but not the /usr/bin/emacs alternative.  It would be better
> to use emacs21 | emacs22 | emacs-snapshot instead (the latter works,
> I just verified it).
>
> The package will still FTBFS if the system administrator has
> manually set the emacs alternative to some not-really-Emacs-editor
> as zile or e3, but that's probably too weird to bother about.

Yuck.  Still, I guess the only real alternative would be to use some
sort of automake script to figure out where a suitable Emacs (or
XEmacs) binary is, and I don't really want to complicate my build
system.  I'll have to give it some thought.

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