Bug 344361

Summary:	app-emacs/emacs-w3m-1.4.4-r3 doesn't work with app-editors/emacs-23.2-r2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christoph Lange <langec>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Emacs project <emacs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Christoph Lange 2010-11-06 10:48:52 UTC

I have app-editors/emacs-23.2-r2 installed.  It was possible to install app-emacs/emacs-w3m-1.4.4-r3 with that Emacs version, as emacs-w3m does not have dependencies against a specific Emacs version.  However, when I try to start it inside Emacs (M-x w3m), it reports:

Emacs-w3m of this version does not support Emacs 23; try the development version

Indeed version 1.4.390_pre20100312 works.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-11-06 22:42:53 UTC

There's not much that we can do about this. Obviously, upstream is well aware of the problem, but hasn't released a new version since a long time.

Stabilising a CVS snapshot is out of the question.

Comment 2 Christoph Lange 2010-11-06 22:52:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> There's not much that we can do about this. Obviously, upstream is well aware
> of the problem, but hasn't released a new version since a long time.
No, I was rather thinking of making emacs-w3m-1.4.4 depend on <app-editors/emacs-23, or something like that.  (Well, personally I'm not seriously asking for anything, as I have found a way that works for me.)

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-11-07 10:38:58 UTC

I've added an explicit dependency on <emacs-23 and dropped the package to unstable.

This is not a real solution, therefore resolving as upstream.