diff -Nru emacs23-23.4+1/debian/changelog emacs23-23.4+1/debian/changelog
--- emacs23-23.4+1/debian/changelog	2012-09-21 16:43:24.000000000 +0000
+++ emacs23-23.4+1/debian/changelog	2012-09-21 19:54:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+emacs23 (23.4+1-3ubuntu4) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/control.*: Don't provide emacs metapackage, it is provided by
+    emacs24 source package now.
+
+ -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:53:36 -0400
+
 emacs23 (23.4+1-3ubuntu3) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
 
   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary lisp code execution via crafted file
diff -Nru emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control
--- emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control	2012-09-21 16:52:04.000000000 +0000
+++ emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control	2012-09-21 19:59:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,15 +13,6 @@
 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
-Package: emacs
-Architecture: all
-Depends: emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox, ${misc:Depends}
-Provides: emacsen, editor, mail-reader, news-reader
-Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
- GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
- This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
- release.
-
 Package: emacs23-lucid
 Architecture: any
 Depends: emacs23-bin-common (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
diff -Nru emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control.in emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control.in
--- emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control.in	2012-07-10 15:44:28.000000000 +0000
+++ emacs23-23.4+1/debian/control.in	2012-09-21 19:52:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,15 +13,6 @@
 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
-Package: emacs
-Architecture: all
-Depends: @DEB_FLAVOR@ | @DEB_FLAVOR@-lucid | @DEB_FLAVOR@-nox, ${misc:Depends}
-Provides: emacsen, editor, mail-reader, news-reader
-Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
- GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
- This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
- release.
-
 Package: @DEB_FLAVOR@-lucid
 Architecture: any
 Depends: @DEB_FLAVOR@-bin-common (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}