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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21 with tag fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #225054,
regarding emacs21: No support for SMTP authentication
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-1
Severity: normal
smtpmail.el that is included in the Debian packages doesn't have any
support for the smtpmail-auth-credentials variable which provides SMTP
authentication. It appears the version in the FSF emacs cvs head
branch does have support for this feature.
I went ahead and downloaded the smtpmail.el from cvs and I'm now
successfully using smtpmail.el to do SMTP authentication, but it would
be nice to have this included in the Debian package.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux landofratop 2.4.22-ben2 #11 Fri Oct 3 01:14:53 EDT 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.10 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblockfile1 1.03 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng2 1.0.12-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii xaw3dg 1.5-13 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-2 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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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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