[Python-apps-team] Bug#557211: Avoid mercurial.el where vc-hg.el is available?

[Trent W. Buck]

Package: mercurial-common
Version: 1.3.1-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mercurial.el

The mercurial.el file in this package says:

;; This code has been developed under XEmacs 21.5, and may not work as
;; well under GNU Emacs (albeit tested under 21.4).  Patches to
;; enhance the portability of this code, fix bugs, and add features
;; are most welcome.

;; As of version 22.3, GNU Emacs's VC mode has direct support for
;; Mercurial, so this package may not prove as useful there.

Perhaps mercurial.el should not be activated in GNU Emacs 22 and 23,
where the built-in vc-hg library appears to provide better-maintained
and more featureful support.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mercurial-common depends on:
ii  python                        2.5.4-2em1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                1.0.4em1   automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages mercurial-common recommends:
ii  mercurial                     1.3.1-1    scalable distributed version contr

Versions of packages mercurial-common suggests:
pn  python-mysqldb                <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-openssl                <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-pygments               <none>     (no description available)
pn  wish                          <none>     (no description available)

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