GNU bug report logs - #36334
emacs packages broken in Ubuntu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brian Mingus <reflection <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 22:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Brian Mingus <reflection <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36334: emacs packages broken in Ubuntu
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 18:32:52 -0400

Brian Mingus wrote:

> In case someone on this list can do something about it: the paradigm of
> using emacs on Ubuntu has changed / is broken.

Please report Ubuntu problems to Ubuntu, however:

> The emacs / emacs-nox packages on all but the latest Ubuntu release
> appear to be empty.
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/all/emacs/filelist

It's a metapackage that depends on some version of emacs24.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/emacs

Those dependencies are the real packages with the files.
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