Re: Xemacs needs help
On 27 Feb 2004, dres@debian.org wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:06:23 -0500, neroden@twcny.rr.com
> (Nathanael Nerode) said:
>
> Nathanael> The maintainer, James Lewis-Moss, appears to be too busy
> Nathanael> (or something) to maintain the xemacs packages properly
> Nathanael> at the moment.
>
> Nathanael> Co-maintainers and/or NMUs are definitely needed.
>
> Nathanael> Volunteers? ;-)
>
> I'm here and I've uploaded twice in two weeks. But I do have too
Thanks I have noticed, but maybe you could give a little more feedback
on some issues.
> little time to debug all the problems that come at me not to mention
> that some things (modes, packages whatever) I just don't use that
> often (or ever) so have real trouble debugging.
The problem with the package is, that xemacs has included and updated
it's official packages, on some reason debian continues with its own
package like the x-symbol package for xemacs, which is quite outdated.
The auctex problem I consider the most serious.
>
> Also anyone who wants to help with closing bug reports that should
> be closed please feel free.
I did not consider my remarks as bugs, but if you think it will be
faster this way, I report them as bugs.
>
> Also bugs on architectures other than i386 are very hard for me to
> debug (all remote) so help with those is much appreciated.
>
> As to NMUs please don't. It's happened several times to me in the
> past and in every case it's caused more problems that it's solved.
Ok as you prefer, but how can we then help closing bug reports if you
don't wnat NMU?
Uwe
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