[Bug 462936] Re: emacs package is version 23 but depends on the older version emacs22

[IRIE Shinsuke]

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: emacs23
+ Binary package hint: emacs
  
  After installation of Ubuntu 9.10RC, I installed emacs23 package but not
  emacs package, and was additionally going to install w3m-el-snapshot
  package which depends on emacs package. However, I stopped installing
  w3m-el-snapshot because emacs package required to install emacs22
  package by its dependencies:
  
  $ sudo apt-get install w3m-el-snapshot
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    apel emacs emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk flim metamail sharutils
  Suggested packages:
    emacs22-el semi wl wl-beta mule-ucs imagemagick wv xlhtml ppthtml libmoe1.5 namazu2
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    apel emacs emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk flim metamail sharutils w3m-el-snapshot
  0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded.
  Need to get 22.3MB of archives.
  After this operation, 71.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
  Abort.
  
- The installation candidate of emacs package is the latest version 23,
- but this package strangely depends on the older version 22:
+ It seems as if the installation candidate of emacs package is the latest
+ version 23, but this package strangely depends on the older version 22:
  
  $ apt-cache policy emacs
  emacs:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 23.1+1-4ubuntu2+22.2+0ubuntu6
    Version table:
       23.1+1-4ubuntu2+22.2+0ubuntu6 0
          500 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
  $ apt-cache depends emacs
  emacs
   |Depends: emacs22-gtk
   |Depends: emacs22
      emacs22-gtk
      emacs22-nox
    Depends: emacs22-nox
  
  emacs package is described as follows:
  
  Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
   GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
   This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
   release.
  
- Therefore, emacs package should depend on emacs23!
+ I have read Bug #433397 and  understand why emacs22 is installed prior
+ to emacs23. But I think the version number of emacs package and this
+ package description are very confusing.

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emacs package is version 23 but depends on the older version emacs22
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