Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny
Mika Tiainen <mikat@iki.fi> writes:
> Package: gnus
> Version: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg-3
> Severity: serious
>
> This package should be orphaned, currently it has a two year old version
> of the gnus development series (No Gnus). If the package goes to lenny
> it should atleast have the latest No Gnus version.
>
> 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.
I can't comment on XEmacs.
If lenny is going to release with emacs21, I think gnus should continue to
be included, or emacs21 users will get a much worse Gnus experience. I
used this package for all of my mail and news up until emacs22 was
released (and for some time after that until I could make the switch) and
never ran into any problems. I don't believe it's horribly buggy or
unstable, alpha label nonwithstanding.
If emacs21 is going to be removed from the archive before the release, we
may not need this package, provided that the xemacs packages released with
lenny have a newer version.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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