On 2008-07-13 20:50 +0200, 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.
Note, however, that the Gnus in emacs22 is synced with the stable Gnus version from the 5.10 branch, while the gnus package in Debian is taken from the No Gnus development branch. Thus, it lacks some features (and bugs) of that version. > I can't comment on XEmacs. AFAIK, XEmacs still has 5.10.8, more than two years old. The latest stable Gnus is 5.10.10 (that's the same version as 5.11 in Emacs 22.2). > If lenny is going to release with emacs21, I think gnus should continue to > be included, or emacs21 users will get a much worse Gnus experience. I The right thing for emacs21 users in Lenny is to switch to emacs22. Given that emacs21 has long been abandoned upstream, it is very hard to support and just adds load to the security team. > used this package for all of my mail and news up until emacs22 was > released (and for some time after that until I could make the switch) and > never ran into any problems. I don't believe it's horribly buggy or > unstable, alpha label nonwithstanding. > > If emacs21 is going to be removed from the archive before the release, we > may not need this package, provided that the xemacs packages released with > lenny have a newer version. Are you sure that there will be any XEmacs packages in Lenny? There's #457764 which hasn't seen any reaction by the maintainer or other people. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
