On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:02:46 +0200, Arnt wrote in message 
<20180430190246.7552688e@d44>:

> 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

...and all it took to fix it, was "dpkg -P edb".  Doh.
reportbug edb in progress. :o)

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


-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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  best case, worst case, and just in case.
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