Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny
Mika Tiainen <mikat@iki.fi> writes:
> On 13 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> This package is useful for emacs21 users, as it's considerably newer
>> than what was included in emacs21. I agree that it's not useful for
>> emacs22 users (and indeed isn't installable if you only have emacs22
>> installed) since the version that is included in emacs22 is newer.
> Emacs 22 doesn't have a newer version, it has version based on the
> latest stable Gnus (Oort) released in 2003, there is no stable version
> of No Gnus. Xemacs 21 also has Oort Gnus.
>
> Gnus versioning has been explained on another bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432143#42
Ah, indeed, thank you. Now that I investigate further, I see that my
marks directory has not been updated since I switched to Emacs 22, so yes,
moving from the gnus package to emacs22 is a downgrade.
> I would also like to keep the separate No Gnus package, atleast in
> unstable, but if it stays it should have an active maintainer. It's not
> very useful to report bugs against a two year old development snapshot.
Certainly.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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