Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny
On 13 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mika Tiainen <mikat@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> I have not had any problems with No Gnus, but they are still
>> declared alpha versions, and maybe should be completely kept out of
>> stable. Both emacs and xemacs have the latest stable Gnus already
>> included.
>
> This package is useful for emacs21 users, as it's considerably newer
> than what was included in emacs21. I agree that it's not useful for
> emacs22 users (and indeed isn't installable if you only have emacs22
> installed) since the version that is included in emacs22 is newer.
Emacs 22 doesn't have a newer version, it has version based on the
latest stable Gnus (Oort) released in 2003, there is no stable version
of No Gnus. Xemacs 21 also has Oort Gnus.
Gnus versioning has been explained on another bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432143#42
I would also like to keep the separate No Gnus package, atleast in
unstable, but if it stays it should have an active maintainer. It's
not very useful to report bugs against a two year old development
snapshot.
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