Description of Problem: The Elisp package `mew' requires two auxilliary programs implementing MIME encoding and decoding, which are called `mewencode' and `mewdecode'. Binaries for these two programs are missing from `xemacs-21.1.14-10'. As a result MIME emails can neither be composed nor read with mew. How Reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Send yourself MIME email 2. Execute "M-x mew" in XEmacs 3. Move the cursor over the MIME email in +inbox and type `.' Actual Results: Error message: "MIME decoding error: mewdecode doesn't exist" Expected Results: Decoded MIME email Additional Information: The source of this problem seems to be xemacs-sumo-2001-02-04.tar.bz2, which already lacks the two binaries (I verified this by inspecting the xemacs source rpm). In the source distribution of "mew" both programs are contained in a directory named "bin/" among with some other utilities needed by mew. The contents of the whole directory seems to have been omitted from xemacs-sumo-2001-02-04.tar.bz2.
An elisp package can't contain binaries, which is obviously why it's dropped. Install the mew package to get the binaries.
I understand that the xemacs distribution may have dropped the mew binaries from the Elisp bundle, as they do not want to make it architecture-dependent. This is IMHO, however, no excuse for the RH7.1 xemacs package to not ship the mew binaries (after all, it already contains plenty of binaries). Given that the xemacs spec file goes to the trouble of putting in an extra init file for mew, I assume, the intention is to support mew in the xemacs rpm. The impression that support for mew is intended is emphasised by the presence of the "im-140-3" package in RH7.1. Without the mew binaries, this support is quite badly broken.
As I wrote, the mew binaries are already present in the mew package in Rawhide. It should probably split into a mew-common later, though
oops. all of the elisp files are missing in %%files. I've fixed at mew-1.94.10
I made a report about the mew-1.94-9 missing files problem in #54235, since its a completely separate problem.
Fixed in rawhide mew-2.0-1.