[Bug: 21.4.19] dired does not work properly anymore

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Uwe Brauer writes:

 > >>>>> " " == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 >     > Uwe Brauer writes:
 >    >> ================================================================
 >    >> Dear Bug Team!
 >    >> 
 >    >> I just installed Debian Etch on a new Laptop together with the latest 
 >    >> XEmacs 21.4.19 nomule. 
 > 
 >     > Did you build XEmacs yourself, or are you using Debian's package?  If
 >     > you built it yourself, are you using any packages provided by Debian?

 > No these are all  prebuild Debian packages. From your reply I conclude
 > that I should submit a Debian bug report?

Yes.  Debian needs to know about this; there's nothing we can do about
breakage in their packages that doesn't exist in our versions.

Debian has this stubborn policy of trying to force XEmacs to be plug-
compatible with GNU Emacs.  From Mats Lidell's comment, I suspect that
it is the underlying issue here.