devel variants

[Martin Vito Cruz]

I'm not sure if it's a problem with the portfiles or if it's a problem
with code in base/ but I'm running into trouble trying to install
+devel variants of various ports (auctex, slime, haskell-mode.el,
etc).  I'm using a subversion checkout of the trunk; everytime I try
to install one of these +devel variants I get an error message like:
Error: Error executing devel: can't set "depends_lib": invalid depspec:
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I haven't checked all of them but it seems like any port that does
something like
variant devel   { depends_lib-delete port:emacs
                  depends_lib-append port:emacs-devel
                }
will run into the same error.

I can file a bug report in Trac, but I was wondering first whether
someone else is seeing this problem, and whether I should file it
against the specific ports or against base.

Thanks,
Martin