2007-04-27 sumo is missing MANIFEST.erc

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Jerry James wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
>
> <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> > In fact we have two fixes.  One which involves changes to 21.4 and
> > thus is not backward compatible to existing installations in the sense
> > that anyone with an existing installation < 21.4.22 who wants to build
> > all packages would have to upgrade to 21.4.22.  The other involves a
> > monkey-patch which could be added to the package build process and
> > used only on those installations that don't support it (it involves
> > adding a new variable, and thus a boundp test for that variable would
> > be definitive).  The former fix is preferred by Mike but Vin isn't
> > doing anything about it, and the latter requires monkey-patching,
> > which has its own set of problems.
>
> Is Vin not doing anything about it because he doesn't have time, or
> because he disagrees with that direction?

How about a 3rd approach: simply revert (temporarily or move to a branch) or 
otherwise get out of the way the packages/updates that cause the current 
failures, and release the rest?  And possibly rebuild everything without the 
offending new/updated packages and let the resulting set cook in experimental 
for a while before release.