Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

From	Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie
Date	2016-09-30 07:50 +0200
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On 2016-09-29 14:57 -0400, Marc Auslander wrote:

> I see what you mean.  I must assume that the other packages have
> survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my
> package database.  Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't
> know how aptitude works :-)

"emacs21" "emacs22" & "emacs23" are in the package list, even on
a new installation but they are "purely virtual" packages.
Attempting to install them with aptitude fails with message "No
candidate version found for emacs##".

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Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 21:00 +0200
  Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> - 2016-09-30 07:50 +0200

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