Despite claims that he's around, James Lewis-Moss *still* isn't maintaining xemacs21 or xemacs21-packages at all properly -- he obviously doesn't have enough time. Look at the RC bugs, and note the total lack of comment from him.
He said he didn't want any NMUs. I don't think that's a remotely reasonable attitude given the existence of bug #169861, a trivial-to-fix bug which has been festering for many, many months. Hopefully debian-emacsen readers can track down and perhaps even make patches for the RC bugs in xemacs21 and xemacs21-packages (apart from #169861, which is already patched). Once any bug is patched and the patches are in the appropriate bug trail, please NMU the package. It's best to stay conservative by just applying the patches and doing nothing else. If you can get a version which builds and installs on all architectures, you'll have done so much better than the current "maintainer" that you'll deserve a reward. Debian-qa, this is an(other) example of a maintainer who isn't maintaining his packages, and in fact appears to be slightly worse than no maintainer at all because he's discouraging other people from maintaining them. Perhaps y'all can come up with something to do here? If this isn't dealt with, I think xemacs21 and xemacs21-packages should be removed from 'sarge', because they're unacceptably buggy. This would entail the removal of three additional packages, but no more (most packages depending on xemacs21 have alternative dependencies on 'emacsen' or 'emacs21'). -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/
