Odd, the bugs I report upstream seem to never get fixed. Ah:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/changelog.gz|head
2003-03-18 Francesco PotortAl <pot@gnu.org>
* Version 21.3 released.
Where's the "excitement of sid"? Or maybe it's upstream that are slow
to release stuff. (I don't want to go beyond sid though.)