Impossible to commit to packages

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nelson Ferreira writes:

 > Ok, I may have been mislead by Mike's email that anonscm.debian.org
 > was to be the permanent replacement of alioth.

Yes, that *was* correct, and the replacement of CVS by Mercurial was a
long-term project.  But anonscm.debian.org only works for anonymous
checkouts and updates.  There is no working replacement for
cvs.alioth.debian.org (the old domain for r/w CVS), and it seems that
Debian is not going to do anything about that.  So the transition to
Mercurial became pretty urgent.

 > As far as I'm concern as a developer of SXEmacs, no harm done, and
 > I also apologize if my message was interpreted in a harsher tone
 > than just a wish.

Not at all, it's just that the messages from Mats and me crossed in
the mail so maybe it looks like we're more sensitive than we are.

And in any case, we consider SXEmacs a very friendly fork and we'd
like to keep it that way.