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The last few days I've been buzy putting my numerous packages into darcs. So far I quite like this versioning system, there are however a few problems:

• it cannot handle epochs
• a lot of my packages' upstream seems to have gone or moved
• some of my packages are native packages, but they are not directly related to debian. I think this was just because the previous maintainer (like me) was part of the upstream team and disliked the additional problems caused by a non-native package. This is starting to bite however and when I try to reverse the situation I often see that the debian version is higher then the last official release of that project. So I need to use epochs. See point 1 :-(.

So my big plan to have all my packages in darcs and attracting a multitude of helpers seems to have fallen foul. I will still try to get this into some shape and make it available...

sbcl has run into some gcc-4 problem on some platforms and cmucl won't even build using gcc-4. A lot of work needs to be done and there is so little time, mostly because of the evil daen free library that is sucking away hours like a baby milk.