bug#36334: emacs packages broken in Ubuntu

[Glenn Morris]

Brian Mingus wrote:

> In case someone on this list can do something about it: the paradigm of
> using emacs on Ubuntu has changed / is broken.

Please report Ubuntu problems to Ubuntu, however:

> The emacs / emacs-nox packages on all but the latest Ubuntu release
> appear to be empty.
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/all/emacs/filelist

It's a metapackage that depends on some version of emacs24.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/emacs

Those dependencies are the real packages with the files.