Bug 2212452

Summary:	Unnecessarily strict dependency on emacs-filesystem
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Björn Lindström <bkhl>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Daiki Ueno <dueno>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	benson_muite, dan.cermak, dueno, gordon.messmer, msekleta, phracek, robinlee.sysu, swt
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Description Björn Lindström 2023-06-05 15:28:03 UTC

Because each build of emacs-common strictly depends on the matching build of emacs-filesystem, if I want to layer a particular version of Emacs, I have to do this rather awkward override:

rpm-ostree override replace '$URL/emacs-filesystem-$VERSION.rpm'




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This comes up when wanting to test a pretest build of Emacs from COPR on Silverblue, further details on how to do that currently are in: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bhavin192-emacs-pretest/21690/4


Expected Results:  
Since the only thing provided by the emacs-filesystem package is the path '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d', this package could quite easily have a fixed version, and all future builds of Emacs depend on that, or rather a range of version from when the package was first created and that new "fixed" version.