Subject: bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 12:27:26 +0300

On 05/29/2015 09:48 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:

> https://github.com/fishman/ctags seems active and has an Emacs developer
> (Masatake YAMATO) as a contributor.

It indeed seems to be progressing nicely (fixed a Ruby bug I've reported 
just recently), but this fork is not packaged by any distribution yet, 
AFAIK.

So that's an argument toward keeping etags, at least for the time being.