Package: emacs23-common
Version: 23.2+1-2
Severity: normal

I'm not sure why, but "man emacsclient" gives me the emacs22 version
and not the emacs23 version. From the following, I'd have expected to
get the emacs23 version, because that's what
/usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.1.gz
points at (via /etc/alternatives/emacsclient.1.gz).

mas...@doggy:~$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.* 
/etc/alternatives/emacsclient.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   44 jun 28 17:20 /etc/alternatives/emacsclient.1.gz -> 
/usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.emacs23.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 jan 25 16:59 
/usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.1emacs22.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 jun 28 17:20 /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.1.gz 
-> /etc/alternatives/emacsclient.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1684 mai 16 08:46 
/usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.emacs23.1.gz

but:

mas...@doggy:~$ man emacsclient | md5sum
18c85d475d5ce5ffde470cbf06596aef  -
mas...@doggy:~$ man -l /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.1emacs22.gz | md5sum
18c85d475d5ce5ffde470cbf06596aef  -

while:

mas...@doggy:~$ man -l /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.emacs23.1.gz | md5sum
5c884941e360cecafb25859153fd5468  -
mas...@doggy:~$ man -l /etc/alternatives/emacsclient.1.gz | md5sum
5c884941e360cecafb25859153fd5468  -
mas...@doggy:~$ man emacsclient.emacs23 | md5sum
5c884941e360cecafb25859153fd5468  -


Please make it so that the emacs23 version effectively takes
precedence over the emacs22 version, that is when /usr/bin/emacsclient
points to /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23 .

mas...@doggy:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacsclient /usr/bin/emacsclient*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    28 jun 28 17:20 /etc/alternatives/emacsclient -> 
/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    29 jun 28 17:20 /usr/bin/emacsclient -> 
/etc/alternatives/emacsclient
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15432 jan 25 17:00 /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs22
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21128 mai 16 09:45 /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23
mas...@doggy:~$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display emacsclient
emacsclient - auto mode
  link currently points to /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23
/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs22 - priority 25
  slave emacsclient.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.1emacs22.gz
/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23 - priority 26
  slave emacsclient.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.emacs23.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23'.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages emacs23-common depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.15.7.2       Debian package management system
ii  emacsen-common            1.4.17         Common facilities for all emacsen
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 

emacs23-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages emacs23-common suggests:
pn  emacs23-common-non-dfsg       <none>     (no description available)
ii  emacs23-el                    23.2+1-2   GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files

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