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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21-el with tag
unreproducible or fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #252100,
regarding emacs20-el: composing mail error: nil instead of empty string
to be marked as done.
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Package: emacs20-el
Version: 20.7-13.1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail/mh-comp.el
After starting emacs with 'emacs -nw -q' and then the MH subsystem
with 'M-x mh-rmail', composing a msg with 'C-x m' gives this error:
Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
Here is the backtrace:
Signaling: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)
mh-insert-fields("To:" "" "Subject:" nil "Cc:" "")
mh-send-sub("" "" nil #<window-configuration>)
mh-send("" "" nil)
mh-smail-batch(nil nil nil nil nil nil nil)
compose-mail(nil nil nil nil)
call-interactively(compose-mail)
And here is the diff for the fix that works for me:
--- /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail/mh-comp.el Wed Nov 10 10:41:58 1999
+++ /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail/mh-comp.el Tue Jun 1 14:25:23 2004
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@
(while name-values
(let ((field-name (car name-values))
(value (car (cdr name-values))))
- (cond ((equal value "")
+ (cond ((or (equal value "") (null value))
nil)
((mh-position-on-field field-name)
(insert " " value))
-Sanjoy
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux skye 2.4.25-woc2 #1 Mon Mar 22 13:52:16 GMT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages emacs20-el depends on:
ii emacs20 20.7-13.1 The GNU Emacs editor.
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Hello,
Thanks for your interest in improving Debian, and sorry that the bugs
were not fully resolved in due time.
emacs21 packages have been removed from testing in 2009 [1], not
present even in the current stable. Consequently, these bugs are now
orphan (without maintainer assigned) so they probably will not be
attended/noticed further.
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacs21.html
The bugs deemed valid are going to be verified and reassigned, but the
current bugs that I'm closing now are very ancient (more than 10 years
sometimes) and marked as unreproducible or fixed upstream years ago.
Please comment if you want think that some of the raised questions are
still pending and need to be addressed differently (e.g., reassigned
to other packages, etc.).
Cheers.
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