Xemacs21 problems with ESS 5.9.1 ?? [FWD from ESS-debian]

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Sebastian P Luque <spluque at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:08:49 -0500 writes:

    > On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:17:42 +0200,
    > Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

    >>>>>>> Sebastian P Luque <spluque at gmail.com> on Thu, 03 Jun 2010
    >>>>>>> 23:40:47 -0500 writes:

    >>> Hi, I've committed a few changes to ess-rutils.el that Debian sid
    >>> XEmacs can compile with the same inocuous warnings that GNU Emacs
    >>> produces.

    >>> Incidentally, I also found that XEmacs doesn't know `delete-dups'
    >>> neither, which I used in ess-help.el to find '\alias{}'ed objects, so
    >>> I replaced that with `ess-uniq-list'.  What a trip into "Emacsen
    >>> interoperability lane" this was!

    >> Thanks a lot, Seb!  Yes, it's a painful exercise sometimes.

    >> Thanks for having done it!

    > And I thank Dirk for motivating me to do it.  He's wondering whether to
    > wait for the next release to produce a new Debian package with these
    > changes, given that 5.10 is already slated in the source.

(and I see he has decided already *not* to wait.)

Dirk, have you confirmed that the changes do "close the bug"?
If yes, I would indeed have planned to release  5.10  ASAP;
The problem will also affect non-debian users of old Xemacsen.

Martin