On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:10:30PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > In particular, xemacs21 still hasn't properly made the libpng > transition, the piuparts bug which showed xemacs21-nomule removing > files which belong to xemacs21-support is still present and several > other issues in the control file have to be fixed.
Could you be more specific as to what you believe the issues in the control file are? Is it just the hard coded architectures thing, that's the only reported issue and there's nothing terribly obvious to inspection? I guess you might be thinking of stuff like the patch system which is definitely annoying but isn't really a control file thing? > Please, for the sake of Debian's quality, re-open all bugs which > have not been fixed or have the package removed from testing. There doesn't seem to be any particularly useful way of discovering what they might be, and I rather suspect that 90% of them are just never going to be looked at usefully anyway - there's no point in having so many old things nobody cares about floating around and obscuring the listings, it's a similar problem to things like KDE. > xemacs21 should not be released under these circumstances. That seems like a substantial overreaction, we only have the one RC issue that I wasn't able to find in the closed bugs for some reason (which TBH looks to have been present for something like a decade without anyone caring outside of explicit testing).
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