Hauke Fath writes: An "experimental" package is uploaded when the maintainer of the particular package says it's ready to be uploaded. It's a beta test area; Lisp packages tend to interact with each other in very complex ways, and refactoring bugs (disappearing variables that other packages use, and so on) are often caught soon after a release, but aren't always fixed quickly. In theory, when the project's package czar (currently Norbert Koch) decides to. At present we're in a space bind. I need to get some round tuits, make sure that everything is backed up (I had a system crash a while back so I *should* have copies of everything *somewhere*, but I need to find them -- they're on disconnected disks that I need to find a place to mount), and then once I make space everything currently in experimental will move to stable. Right now, everything has gotten all the beta testing it's going to get, so you can just package it from experimental. Once the packaging workflow restarts, you'll have to make a decision about how much risk you're willing to take on behalf of your users. Probably Norbert <viteno(a)xemacs.org&gt; has the best idea of how often bugs that require a repackaging before moving to stable occur. HTH Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta