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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21 with tag fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #146577,
regarding emacs21: customize breaks symlinks even when backup-by-copying is on
to be marked as done.
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-1
Severity: normal
I have ~/.elisp/emacs.el symlinked to ~/.emacs on my systems. When
backup-by-copying is on, the symlinks are correctly identified and left alone
when I manually edit either file.
However, when using customize to change an option which doesn't already exist
in custom-set-variables, ~/.emacs is written to directly and the symlink is
broken.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux mobile 2.4.18 #1 Sat Mar 30 14:38:03 EST 2002 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages emacs21 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.9.19 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime li
ii liblockfile1 1.03 NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfi
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libpng2 1.0.12-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii xaw3dg 1.5-12 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.1.0-14 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello,
Thanks for your interest in improving Debian, and sorry that the bugs
were not fully resolved or closed 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 fixed-upstream years ago, with no recent
input, and are supposed to be fixed in emacs22 at the latest.
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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