Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Wei Liu 

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:47:27 +1030 Ron <ron@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > That's basically why "just nuke htags now" is starting to look like
> > a viable, and even sensible, option.  But it's tricky to know who
> > might be upset by that - and we don't have a clear idea of exactly
> > what we'd really gain elsewhere from that tradeoff, since most of
> > the people saying "I need a new upstream" haven't actually been
> > telling us what the real problem is which that fixes, even when I
> > asked.
> 
> Gtags in Debian doesn't work with modern code base. Last time I tried (several
> years ago), it segfault'ed while trying to index Linux kernel.

FWIW, it worked fine in a test run I just did (on linux-4.9 rc 1), and
last time I used it, it also worked fine with the emacs integration, so
I don't recognise the crying from the rooftops about it being broken in
Debian.

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