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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21 with tag fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #280601,
regarding tex-dvi-view-command default value
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.3+1-8
The variable tex-dvi-view-command should be initialized to something
sensible, like "xdvi".
(Or even better, "dvi-previewer" which would be managed by
update-alternatives to point to whatever dvi previewer is installed.
Which isn't there now but should be.)
Reasoning: it is no better to fail with NIL than with "missing
executable". And for someone new to emacs, who has xdvi installed, it
is a bit of an unnecessary hurdle to figure out how to set the
variable manually when it could have started with a useful value.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter <[email protected]>
Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
http://www-bcl.cs.may.ie/~barak/
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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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