I thought it would be a good idea to create a pull request[1] and ping the
group about this.  No one volunteered in [2] to maintain support for Emacs
21, and the Debian package of Magit 1.0.0 [3] depends on Emacs23.

Comments?

[1] https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/195
[2]
http://groups.google.com/group/magit/browse_thread/thread/a76a51b0e85a9e86/14aa076979e52e69?lnk=gst&q=older+emacs
[3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/magit

===PATCH===
    Rémi already told the Debian maintainers that we aren't supporting
    XEmacs 21 on Debian's bug tracker.  This adds that info to the
    documentation so we can close #145 on our issue tracker as well

    [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619480

    Modified   README.md
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d156db9..430f104 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 It's Magit!  An Emacs mode for Git.
 ===================================

-Magit is an interface to Git for Emacs. Unlike Emacs's native
-[version control support][vc], Magit can take advantage of Git's
-native features without breaking compatibility with other systems.
+Magit is an interface to Git for Emacs, supporting GNU Emacs 22 or
+later.
+
+ Unlike Emacs's native [version control support][vc], Magit can take
+advantage of Git's native features without breaking compatibility with
+other systems.

 To get started see the [Magit User Manual][manual] or perhaps the
 [cheatsheet][cheatsheet] if you're in a hurry. There's also an
    Modified   magit.texi
diff --git a/magit.texi b/magit.texi
index 02b27ec..ebd8b9a 100644
--- a/magit.texi
+++ b/magit.texi
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ Texts.
 @top Magit User Manual

 Magit is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented
-as an extension to Emacs.
+as an extension to Emacs.  Magit supports GNU Emacs version 22 or
+later.  It may work with other emacsen, but Magit developers do not
+intend to investigate and fix bugs that only appear in unsupported
+versions.

 @menu
 * Introduction::

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