Package Maintainers Heads Up

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

skip at pobox.com writes:

 > On November 7 I wrote:
 > 
 >     Ville> 1) The new vc hasn't been around for too long yet, so I'm pretty
 >     Ville> sure we'll find more things as it gets more exposure.
 > 
 >     me> I still can't cleanly "just use it".  I go through this series of
 >     me> steps after XEmacs starts:
 > 
 >     me>     * Try ediff-revision (the most common thing I do)
 >     me>     * Get an error about this 'state' variable being undefined
 >     me>     * (setq debug-on-error t)
 >     me>     * Try again
 >     me>     * find-function whatever-it-is
 >     me>     * C-x C-e
 > 
 >     me> Then I'm off to the races.  I've cvs up'd and reinstalled the
 >     me> packages a couple times but I still get this error.
 > 
 > I saw no responses to my message.  Is this problem not considered a bug
 > *somewhere* in XEmacs or one of its packages?

It's a bug.

As to why it didn't get a response, I suppose that's because it looks
like it's "Ville's thread", and most developers probably assume he'll
take care of it.  But he's announced that he's busy, so it may take a
bit.

Ville, are you going to take a shot at this, or do you want somebody
else to look at it?