Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
A particular newsgroup breaks gnus in an irrecoverable way. Gnus cannot open a group with content from "gwene.com.fatwallet.hotdeals" from the news.gmane.org server (filed in bug# 797409). Two other gnus functions fail when trying to recover: * gnus-agent-regenerate-group * gnus-agent-expire-group Those two commands fail with: Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" This is very severe, because regenerating the group is the only function to recover from other bugs, and this function itself is broken. It's not even possible to delete the messages, because the group cannot be entered. It's a complete stalemate. The bugs are so entrenched that there is no way to recover from this. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages emacs24 depends on: ii emacs24-bin-common 24.4+1-5 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3 ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libasound2 1.0.28-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-0+deb8u1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u2 ii libgif4 4.1.6-11 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.8-6+deb8u3 ii libgomp1 4.9.2-10 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.1+b2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.3.1-12 ii libm17n-0 1.6.4-3 ii libmagickcore-6.q16-2 8:6.8.9.9-5 ii libmagickwand-6.q16-2 8:6.8.9.9-5 ii libotf0 0.9.13-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii librsvg2-2 2.40.5-1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libtiff5 4.0.3-12.3 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1+b1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1+b1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 emacs24 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs24 suggests: pn emacs24-common-non-dfsg <none> -- no debconf information
