Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 26.10-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
when you finalize a changelog entry you got:
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-- Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 822-date: warning: This program is \
deprecated. Please use 'date -R' instead.
Tue, 15 May 2007 20:16:49 +0200
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This because the following change in dpkg-dev, introduced as of
version 1.14.0 (which closed the very old bug #31364 [1]):
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2007-01-24 Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* scripts/822-date.pl: Convert the script to be a simple wrapper
around 'date -R'.
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The following patch correct the problem in `debian-changelob-mode':
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- debian-changelog-mode.el.ORG 2007-05-15 20:27:56.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-changelog-mode.el 2007-05-15 20:33:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -1115,9 +1115,9 @@
(defun debian-changelog-date-string ()
"Return RFC-822 format date string."
- (let* ((dp "822-date")
+ (let* ((dp "date")
(cp (point))
- (ret (call-process "822-date" nil t))
+ (ret (call-process "date" nil t nil "-R"))
(np (point))
(out nil))
(cond ((not (or (eq ret nil) (eq ret 0)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
But as we're now obliged to use an argument for `date`, I'd suggest
something like the following:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- debian-changelog-mode.el.ORG 2007-05-15 20:27:56.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-changelog-mode.el 2007-05-15 20:36:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -1115,19 +1115,18 @@
(defun debian-changelog-date-string ()
"Return RFC-822 format date string."
- (let* ((dp "822-date")
- (cp (point))
- (ret (call-process "822-date" nil t))
+ (let* ((cp (point))
+ (ret (call-process "date" nil t nil "-R"))
(np (point))
(out nil))
(cond ((not (or (eq ret nil) (eq ret 0)))
(setq out (buffer-substring-no-properties cp np))
(delete-region cp np)
- (error (concat "error from " dp ": " out)))
+ (error (concat "error from `date -R`: " out)))
(t
(backward-char)
(or (looking-at "\n")
- (error (concat "error from " dp ": expected newline after date
string")))
+ (error (concat "error from `date -R`: expected newline after
date string")))
(setq out (buffer-substring-no-properties cp (- np 1)))
(delete-region cp np)
out))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
Footnotes:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=31634
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el depends on:
ii debian-el 26.10-1 Emacs helpers specific to Debian u
ii emacs-snapshot-nox [emacsen 1:20070508-1 The GNU Emacs editor (without X su
Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el recommends:
ii wget 1.10.2+1.11.beta1-1 retrieves files from the web
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