the removal of xmess was a side of the removal of xmame, since both binaries were built from the same xmame source but xmess is dead upstream anyway ( last release in 2006 )
as I acknowledge the lack of mess in Debian, I am reassigning this bug as a RFP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org