Re: Bugs over two years old

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> For your amusement: (it's actually been a year or two since I last posted
> this now too... The comments are probably pretty outdated)
> 
>                             Bugs Over Two Years Old
>...
>    Package: emacs19
>    Maintainer: eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)
>    4107 emacs leaves stale lockfiles and publishes pathnames
>    4388 emacs mail-mode fails RFC822 section 3.4.7
>    4890 emacs has bad path for jka-compr in site-start
>    4997 mh-e will fail inc askes for POP passwd.
>    7074 feature request (Was: Carsten Leonhardt: Re: ~/Maildir/ user
>    interface)
>    8468 missing call to fix_glyph on border (Evil hacking with glyphs,
>    faces, d-tables)
>    8723 emacs and xemacs manpage problem
>    9032 Double C++-mode menu in Emacs.
>    9740 following up under GNUS
>    9741 Emacs save and auto-save not reliable
>    9761 emacs: html-mode -> tag font bugged
>    10123 emacs: doesn't properly respect INFOPATH.
>    11079 gnus.el has wrong value of gnus-info-nodes
>    12171 Bug in Emacs's C indenting !
>    12677 No docs in /usr/doc
>    14762 diary window date not updated
>    15955 /usr/man/man1/etags.1.gz should be an alternative too
>    16715 emacs has no recent custom library
>    17441 crypt++ for emacs
>    17469 Emacs not 8 bit-clean by default
>    17509 gnus doesn't work!
>    17696 emacs: Emacs adds a From: header line when sending mail. After
>    that, a definition of from_field in /etc/smail/config is not honoured
>    19114 Italian Ispell and Emacs
>    20253 emacs icon is too big
>    20525 emacs: can open concurent sessions on ONE file
>    21309 emacs19: does not provide `editor' alternative
>    21310 emacs19: menu icon too large
>    22076 usr/info/emacs is missing
>    22838 emacs19: emacs.1.gz not a symlink
>    23149 Error building emacs19_19.34-19 from source
>    23414 Error building emacs19_19.34-20 from source
>    24005 emacs19 install fails
>    24059 emacs19: Error installing alternatives for
>    /usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz
>    24214 emacs19: mmencode is missing
>    24499 emacs19: Repeatable segmentation fault
>    24594 emacs19: info uplink in emacs-1.gz is wrong
>    25417 emacs19: changing font takes long
>...

Isn't it time to remove emacs19 from unstable? The emacs20 package is more
than 2 1/2 years old and RMS said that emacs19 is no longer supported
upstream.

> Cheers,
> aj

cu,
Adrian

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