Your message dated Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:22:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Closing old emacs21 bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #170794, regarding emacs21: vc-next-action-on-file fails to handle RCS owner changes to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: emacs21 Version: 21.2-1 Severity: normal vc.el of current emacs21 has this piece of code which is activated by RCS files which somebody else has changed but not committed: ;; Abnormal: edited but read-only ((and visited (eq state 'edited) buffer-read-only (not (file-writable-p file))) ;; Make the file+buffer read-write. If the user really wanted to ;; commit, he'll get a chance to do that next time around, anyway. (message "File is edited but read-only; making it writable") (set-file-modes buffer-file-name (logior (file-modes buffer-file-name) 128)) (toggle-read-only -1)) The code is sensible but set-file-modes fails if you are not the owner of the file (which is the case with RCS in this situation). Thus there should be some kind of fallback. (The modes could be changed by copying the file, unlinking the original, and moving the copy into the place of the original.) I corrected this locally by redefining vc-next-action-on-file not to account this situation at all. Thus it falls to normal commit, which handles the situation fine with RCS. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mars 2.4.17 #1 Wed Mar 13 14:54:41 EET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen. ii libc6 2.2.5-11.1 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 5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng2 1.0.12-3.woody.2 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library ii xaw3dg 1.5-14 Xaw3d widget set ii xlibs 4.1.0-17 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-2 compression library - runtime
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it affected emacs21, and the current version is 23. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to re-open it and move it to the appropriate package, or ask me to do it. Solveig
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