Re: additional packges needing a long-term plan

To: David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: additional packges needing a long-term plan
From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:36:39 +0200

At 21:47 Uhr +0000 23.04.2012, David Holland wrote:
>(2) xemacs and particularly xemacs-current
>
>xemacs-current has been crashing during the build for a long time, and
>both xemacs packages have been marked vulnerable for a long time.
>Meanwhile, xemacs seems to be moribund upstream.

Not so: <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/>

> What's the right thing to do?

Update xemacs-current to 21.5.31.

The 21.4 branch is maintained still, and a 21.4.23 release will hopefully
take care of the security issue.

        hauke

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