On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:36:07PM +0000, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-05-12 17:06 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:37:57PM +0000, Jiří Paleček wrote:
> >> Package: cmake
> >> Version: 2.4.8-1
> >> Severity: important
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> when installing cmake and emacs (at the same time), I got the following 
> >> error message
> >> 
> >> Setting up cmake (2.4.8-1) ...
> >> ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.
> >
> >> ERROR: This is likely a bug in the cmake package, which needs to
> >> ERROR: add one of the appropriate dependencies.
> >
> >   No this is not an option for cmake to depends on emacsen, it would be
> > more than bloated. This isn't appropriate, and it wouldn't be
> > appropriate to have a separate cmake-mode just for two files either. The
> > emacs policy is broken, I won't do that. This issue is an emacsen-common
> > technical limitation, and I assume dpkg triggers could resolve that in a
> > nice way, I'm totally open to update my cmake emacs integration, but not
> > to the cost of a dependency on emacs.
> 
> Depending on emacsen-common should be enough, see #435023.  Pulling in
> 86k is not so much of a bloat, I think.

  Well, the policy explicitly marks that as forbidden, but if it's not,
then yeah, it's totally acceptable. I'll add it in a next upload then.

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