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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21 with tag fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #273031,
regarding /usr/bin/emacs21-x: doesn't accept umlauts in passphrase
to be marked as done.
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.3+1-7
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/emacs21-x
When I try to enter a passphrase in Gnus using Mailcrypt or PGG, umlauts
are not accepted, Gnus fails with an error. I reported this to the Gnus
people. According to them it is a Emacs problem. See the mail below,
also containing the relevant parts of my Gnus bug report:
From: Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: can't enter GPG passphrase w/ umlaut
To: Michael Below <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:11:17 +0200
Michael Below <[email protected]> writes:
> Gnus v5.10.6
> GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> of 2004-08-03 on raven, modified by Debian
>
> Whenever I try to enter a passphrase containing an umlaut, I get the
> error described below. Some kind person had provided me with a fix for
> an older version of Gnus for this, but it doesn't seem to work anymore
> (will attach that to the end of the message).
>
> Thanks for your work...
>
> Michael Below
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Attempt to change byte length of
> a string")
> fillarray("\xf64" 0)
> read-passwd("GnuPG passphrase for mbelow: ")
This appear to be an emacs bug. It is fixed in Emacs CVS. Perhaps
you report this to Debian, so they could back port a fix.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.3+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libtiff4 3.6.1-1.1 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-1 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-7 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 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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