a crisis is a chance

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andreas Roehler writes:
 > cvsaccess.html still wrongly declares
 > 
 > 	XEmacs CVS Repository
 > 
 > which now is a Mercurial instead and should be called so.

No, the XEmacs CVS repository still exists and that is where packages
and the website itself are hosted.  Here's what cvsaccess.html itself
says:

    XEmacs CVS Repository

    The development mainline of XEmacs (currently version 21.5) and
    the stable version of XEmacs (version 21.4) reside in Mercurial
    repositories on hg.debian.org from which you may browse the latest
    checked-in code. Please see the introduction to the XEmacs
    Mercurial Repository for instructions on its use.

    cvs.alioth.debian.org hosts two different CVS (Concurrent Versions
    System) trees for XEmacs. The primary CVS archive contains the
    XEmacs package sources. These sources provide a large number of
    customizable externally-provided packages for XEmacs. The other
    CVS archive contains the source for this website and all of its
    mirrors.

If you're looking at something different, we need to figure out why.

The website can be moved to Mercurial any time, but there's no real
hurry as website developers are a small community (currently zero,
although Vin, Norbert, and I occasionally update some parts).

Moving packages is more complicated for two reasons.  First, Mercurial
does not have a well-understood mechanism for creating sub-projects.
(By now that's probably deficiency on our part.)  But that's really
important for this usage.  Second, we need to coordinate with external
package developers.

 > Don't see, where to get the cvsaccess.html source for making a patch.

See the instructions in http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html.

It will be in xemacsweb/Develop/cvsaccess.content.  (Note the
extension.)