On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:43:48 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 09:26:14AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I'm running ascii.
> > 
> > Is there a good reason why the emacs metapackage depends on emacs24
> > and not on emacs25, which appears also to be available in
> > the repositories?
> >   
> 
> The reason is that the emacs maintainers wanted to have emacs25 in
> stretch, but did not manage to fix all the rc bugs in some
> emacs25-related packages in time for the release, so eventually they
> decided to skip both emacs24 and emacs25. There was also a ML thread
> somewhere about that.

..these?:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851823

..https://wiki.debian.org/Emacs25InStretch rather suggests 
they may be fixing it?


> This sucks a bit,

..aye.  Failure paste: https://pastebin.com/nHMur7zD

> but still....
> 
> HTH
> 
> KatolaZ



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