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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21 with tag fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #252243,
regarding emacs21: Keys stop working properly (with careful description and
steps to reproduce)
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.3+1-5
Severity: normal
If you put the following ELisp into a file:
--- cut here ---
(mouse-avoidance-mode 'banish)
(setq tooltip-gud-tips-p t)
(menu-bar-mode 0)
--- cut here ---
and then perform these steps:
1. Start emacs with emacs -q -l <file.el>
2. C-x C-f foo.c RET
3. C-x b
you will find that the C-x b, instead of switching buffer, inserts a
"b". Other weird things happen: prefix keystrokes in general stop
working, and if you do "undo" more than once, it will repeatedly undo
and redo the same edit.
Commenting out any one of the three lines in the elisp file fixes the
problem.
I found this problem by whittling down my .emacs.d files; I noticed it
when trying to edit a C++ file (seems to be a problem in c++-mode
too).
This problem seems to be specific to this build: it does not occur in
Emacs 21.3.1 in Fedora Core 2.
Since the symptoms suggest memory corruption to me, I tried running
Emacs under valgrind, but it doesn't work on Emacs as packaged in
Debian (indeed, a thread on emacs-devel from earlier this year showed
that the Emacs developers couldn't get it to work either).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.3+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-2 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1.0b1-6 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-6 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 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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