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Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages

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Hello,

On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 04:15pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 10:45am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>>
>>> Acknowledged.  I thought there was a bug report from Stefano about the
>>> upgrading issue regarding Emacs backports, which turns out to be just an
>>> email to debian-backports[1].  That said, Cyril seemed to support this
>>> idea for a better upgrade experience, though not officially as a RT
>>> member.  As the issue is real, maybe we can file this as an important
>>> bug? (It would sound a bit like tricking the system though but not
>>> really :P)
>>>
>>> Still, I'm also OK with postponing this to Forky to avoid causing
>>> additional issues.
>>
>> No -- my suggestion is to add manually generated
>> Provides/Conflicts/etc. to trixie to fix this problem.
>>
>
> Just to confirm: is the substvars based solution OK for Trixie (as done
> in my updated patchs in my other email), or were you expecting the
> provides/replaces info directly put in d/control (like my earlier
> approach based on d/control.in but only keep the generated d/control)?

I mean the latter.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-06-17 03:10 +0200
  Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-18 16:20 +0200
    Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-06-19 04:10 +0200
      Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-19 14:50 +0200
        Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-20 13:40 +0200
          Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-04 14:40 +0200
            Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-04 22:50 +0200
              Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 11:20 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 11:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 20:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-18 11:20 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-20 16:40 +0200
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