Re: Status of XEmacs? (problem with tramp)
Selon OHURA Makoto <ohura@debian.org>:
> > (CC'ing the new XEmacs maintainer)
>
> I'm reading this list.
I wasn't sure.
> > The current version of XEmacs in 'testing' is the one from woody (!),
> > i.e. 2.4.6, probably because it has not been well maintained.
> > Tramp doesn't byte-compile fine with this version of XEmacs, but it
> > byte-compiles fine with the XEmacs from unstable.
>
> To put it more precisely, XEmacs in testing has been deleted
> because of RC bugs. See,
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/06/msg00021.html
Ah, OK. However, I got a bug report from someone who probably
installed testing prior to this removal.
> And I took over the maintenance from the previous maintainer.
> Now I'm working on fixing RC bugs.
Nice. Thanks.
> > So, do we have a chance to get a updated XEmacs in sarge?
>
> Only one problem is `SEGV problem on ia64'. See BTS
> entry #207412, #149088 and #218241. If I won't be able to fix
> this RC bug, I'll drop ia64 support. There is no other
> difficult problem about xemacs21 package. So I hope I can put
> xemacs21 into sarge release. Please wait one or two weeks.
Please keep us informed as soon as it happens. Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
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