>On 9 Mar 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >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.
Right, he does not reply on a regular base to such reports, I mentioned a small bug to him concerning the compilation of the non mule package and he resolved this without announcing it. Besides this minor things, I think the most urgent thing is to move forward to the >21.4.9 since earlier versions have a bug in the display engine as I mentioned earlier. I also think it is a good thing to rely more on the xemacs-packages system, auctex and x-symbol are examples of what I have in mind. >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'). You are kidding? Xemacs is still in some ways superior to emacs and giving up Xemacs is making debian *less* attractive. Uwe Brauer
