Bug#868856:

2017-08-08 Thread J. Smith
This bug is blocking the migration of the Emacs 25 package. It was apparently fixed in https://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacs25/news/20170729T201922Z.html but the wrong bug number was cited in the upload message.

Bug#891063:

2018-08-07 Thread J. Smith
This is not an Emacs bug (or a bug at all) IMO. See eg bug#766464 and its many duplicates, or the summary from bug#827639:    The problem is that you are using su to start a X/GNOME application as    root. su does not clear the environment, so XDG_RUNTIME_DIR points to    your users path, and

Bug#905767:

2018-08-09 Thread J. Smith
Just ignore this test. See https://bugs.debian.org/879020 .

Bug#883434:

2018-08-24 Thread J. Smith
By experiment, this issue is present since Emacs 23.1. Perhaps it therefore does not have to hold up the testing migration of Emacs 25.

Bug#918646:

2019-01-07 Thread J. Smith
Maybe this helps? http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-diffs/2018-12/msg00377.html    

Bug#929567:

2019-06-05 Thread J. Smith
See https://debbugs.gnu.org/30045 (fixed in Emacs 26.2).

Bug#944616:

2020-03-05 Thread J. Smith
It's disappointing to see Emacs 26.3 fail to propagate to Debian testing for the best part of six months due to this issue. This "FTBS" is a single test failure on mips, in test set-process-filter-t. This test is not present prior to Emacs 26.3. It was added for https://debbugs.gnu.org/36591 , so

Bug#751264: awscli: Unconditionally crashes at startup

2014-06-11 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
Package: awscli Version: 1.2.9-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Any attempt to run 'aws' crashes with the following traceback: ~$ aws --version Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/aws, line 23, in module sys.exit(main()) File /usr/bin/aws, line 19,