Re: Xemacs needs help
On 26 Feb 2004, miles@gnu.org wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:36:26PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Very true, I mentioned some oddies and also propose to sync with
>> offical xemacs release politics, ie stable should be 21.4.x and
>> testing 21.5.x.
>
> I don't use xemacs, but that doesn't make much sense -- you can't
> choose different versions for stable/testing like that (and even if
> some override mechanism exists, there seems no good reason to do so
> in this case). You just put whatever version seems a good choice
> into unstable, and if it's bug-free enough, it'll become the version
> in testing, and thence at some point the version in stable.
>
I don't understand your point:
- right now, the debian stable xemacs version is 21.4.6,
a version which has a serious bug in the display
engine. The Xemacs team considers the most recent
version of the 21.4 series as stable, so why can't
debian follow that? I have seen that the latest version
of the 21.4.x series is now updated in the unstable
branch.
- The 21.5 series in another thing, this is still
buggy (official beta) so why not putting it into the
testing branch of debian.
Even if you think my second proposal is too risky what about the
first one? The display engine bug in 21.4.6 can be quite annoying
and some recent xemacs packages require at least version >
21.4.10. I guess most users will use the xemacs version of the
stable branch of debian.
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