As the maintainer of the stable release series, I'll just say that Hrvoje's value of 'old' is quite different from what I'd expect. The package system should support the dependencies suggested by Jan. - vin Jan> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; writes: Jan> Note that "old" here means "the latest released version". The packages Jan> need to target at the latest released, IMO. Jan> Not without including a special "packages-for-beta" directory. That Jan> would in itself be a good thing. However it would require more Jan> management manpower to do that and we are critically short on that. Jan> How true. The package system needs dependencies so one can have a Jan> "depends on XEmacs 21.2.26 and up".