#1149872 minlog: recommends emacs25 which is not in unstable

Package:
minlog
Source:
minlog
Submitter:
Carles Pina i Estany
Date:
2026-10-03 20:41:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1149872#5
Date:
2026-10-03 20:39:03 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer(s),

I noticed that package minlog recommends emacs25, which is currently not
available in unstable.

See:

- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs25

I see that it was deleted from unstable in 2019.

I guess (but I'm not an emacs package user) that replacing "emacs25" by
"emacs" in the recommends of minlog is the way to go.
Note that the current recommends is "emacs25 | emacs24 | emacsen".
Perhaps everything should be replaced by "emacs". Or perhaps the group
should be "{SOME_PACKAGE_PROVIDED_BY_emacsen} | emacsen"

"emacsen" seems to be provided by the following packages:
-emacs-gtk
-emacs-lucid
-emacs-nox
-emacs-pgtk
-xemacs21-mule
-emacs21-mule-canna-wnn
-xemacs21-nomule

Thank you for your time,

PS[0]: I am developing a tool to detect such issues:
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such reports (for specific packages, all of your maintained packages,
etc.), please let me know. Any other feedback is welcomed as well. No
more bugreports for this missing relation will be sent.

PS[1]: more information available in
https://salsa.debian.org/carlespina/check-relations/-/blob/main/README.md
and
https://salsa.debian.org/carlespina/check-relations/-/blob/main/docs/bug-report-extra-info.md