Bug#594514: marked as done (signature separation anxiety --)
Your message dated Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:38:25 + with message-id and subject line Bug#871627: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #594514, regarding signature separation anxiety -- to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 594514: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594514 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: emacs23 Version: 23.2+1-4 Severity: wishlist Before 23.2, Emacs would insert my default signature at the end of my outgoing messages due to this .emacs line. (setq mail-signature "\n\n\t\t\t\t\t--Barak.\n") Some change in 23.2 made it as if I'd written this instead (setq mail-signature "\n-- \n\n\t\t\t\t\t--Barak.\n") This is documented in the info, File: emacs, Node: Mail Signature 35.5 Mail Signature ... By convention, a mail signature should be marked by a line whose contents are `-- '. If your signature lacks this prefix, it is added for you. The remainder of your signature should be no more than four lines. Okay, whether whitespace at the end of an otherwise non-empty line in a textual document should have semantic significance is a matter of, how can I put it gently ... taste. But, I sure wish there were a way of easily disabling this end-of-line-whitespace adding "feature". I would suggest documenting it as follows: Those with any taste will recoil in horror at giving semantic significance to trailing whitespace, and can disable the insertion of the above separator by setting the global variable do-things-to-make-those-with-taste-or-sense-recoil-in-horror to nil. Thanks for maintaining emacs, and it's great that 23.2 made it into testing. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ Or, as apparently I am now supposed to write ... oh please stop, it burns, it burns, oh how it burns ... -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- Version: 24.5+1-11+rm Dear submitter, as the package emacs24 has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/871627 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)--- End Message ---
Bug#594514: marked as done (signature separation anxiety --)
Your message dated Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:48:55 + with message-id and subject line Bug#753885: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #594514, regarding signature separation anxiety -- to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 594514: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594514 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: emacs23 Version: 23.2+1-4 Severity: wishlist Before 23.2, Emacs would insert my default signature at the end of my outgoing messages due to this .emacs line. (setq mail-signature "\n\n\t\t\t\t\t--Barak.\n") Some change in 23.2 made it as if I'd written this instead (setq mail-signature "\n-- \n\n\t\t\t\t\t--Barak.\n") This is documented in the info, File: emacs, Node: Mail Signature 35.5 Mail Signature ... By convention, a mail signature should be marked by a line whose contents are `-- '. If your signature lacks this prefix, it is added for you. The remainder of your signature should be no more than four lines. Okay, whether whitespace at the end of an otherwise non-empty line in a textual document should have semantic significance is a matter of, how can I put it gently ... taste. But, I sure wish there were a way of easily disabling this end-of-line-whitespace adding "feature". I would suggest documenting it as follows: Those with any taste will recoil in horror at giving semantic significance to trailing whitespace, and can disable the insertion of the above separator by setting the global variable do-things-to-make-those-with-taste-or-sense-recoil-in-horror to nil. Thanks for maintaining emacs, and it's great that 23.2 made it into testing. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ Or, as apparently I am now supposed to write ... oh please stop, it burns, it burns, oh how it burns ... -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- Version: 23.4+1-4.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package emacs23 has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/753885 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)--- End Message ---
