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XEmacs removed from Debian #debian #emacs

🕥︎ - 2013-10-13

Even though I left XEmacs for GNU Emacs a couple of years ago, it is still kind of sad to see the XEmacs packages removed from Debian.

6 release critical bugs, no stable release since March 2009, and no package maintainer. I guess it was time to go.

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