Re: emacs-nox : Depends: emacs-bin-common but it is not going to be installed

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:10 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Jeffrey Walton, le dim. 14 juin 2020 20:48:22 -0400, a ecrit:
> >  emacs-nox : Depends: emacs-bin-common (= 1:26.3+1-1) but it is not
> > going to be installed
> >              Depends: emacs-common (= 1:26.3+1-1) but 1:26.3+1-2 is to
> > be installed
>
> That's the problem with sid and arch:all packages. You need to fetch
> the 1:26.3+1-1 versions of emacs-common and emacs-bin-common from
> snapshot.debian.org

Thanks Smauel.

Please forgive my ignorance... This seems to be a reoccurring problem.
Once is happenstance, twice is a problem.

If emacs-nox depends upon emacs-common, then why is emacs-nox released
to manufacturing with emacs-common missing?

Where does the problem lie? Is the package manager broken? Why does
Sid package repository accept incomplete packages?

Jeff