asac: jed in console has some emacs and fried like weird_segfault
  behaviour like emacs-nox ... segfaults on ctrl-space. Nevertheless, 
  xjed appears to work fine with this patch. Currently disabled architecture 
  check for XRENDERFONTLIBS by 'if [true]' => ATM I can't imagine a debian
  architecture that has no xft; but maybe I am wrong!

diff -uwr /tmp/jed-0.99.16/debian/control jed-0.99.16/debian/control
--- /tmp/jed-0.99.16/debian/control	2005-03-18 23:43:50.000000000 +0100
+++ jed-0.99.16/debian/control	2005-03-18 01:03:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian JED Group <pkg-jed-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.1
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), hevea, libgpmg1-dev (>= 1.17.8-18) [!hurd-i386], perl (>= 5.004.05-1.1), perl-base (>= 5.004.05-1.1), slang1-dev (>= 1.3.11), xlibs-dev (>= 4.0.1-10), libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.0.1-1), libxft-dev, dpatch
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), hevea, libgpmg1-dev (>= 1.17.8-18) [!hurd-i386,kfreebsd-i386], perl (>= 5.004.05-1.1), perl-base (>= 5.004.05-1.1), slang1-dev (>= 1.3.11), xlibs-dev (>= 4.0.1-10), libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.0.1-1), libxft-dev, dpatch
 
 Package: jed
 Architecture: any
diff -uwr /tmp/jed-0.99.16/debian/rules jed-0.99.16/debian/rules
--- /tmp/jed-0.99.16/debian/rules	2005-03-18 23:43:50.000000000 +0100
+++ jed-0.99.16/debian/rules	2005-03-18 01:39:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 	@echo
 	@echo "--- activate xrenderfont support patch for Linux ---"
 	@echo
-	if [ "`uname -s`" = "Linux" ]; then \
+	if [ true ]; then \
 		perl -w -i -p \
 			-e 's/#XRENDERFONTLIBS/XRENDERFONTLIBS/;' \
 			src/Makefile; \