[Bug 462936] [NEW] emacs package depends on the older version emacs22

[IRIE Shinsuke]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: emacs23

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:

$ 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!

** Affects: emacs23 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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emacs package depends on the older version emacs22
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