Bug triage for emacs20
emacs20 has recently been removed from the archive, but there is a
large number of open bugs. Can anyone who knows Emacs have a look to
see if they still apply to emacs21? You can find all bugs at
http://bugs.debian.org/src:emacs20 A current listing of the bugs is
below.
emacs20: 4388 4997 9741 18204 21006 21818 21928 22590 22791 24499 26018 26348 26451 27399 27910 28335 28708 33142 34664 38108 39776 40474 42433 43183 43184 44709 46612 47324 47675 48543 48719 48813 48864 48913 48923 49237 50389 51708 52086 54246 56176 56411 57374 61167 62016 62853 62854 63345 63763 63774 64148 64236 65075 65196 65290 65434 65479 65480 65552 66243 67572 67828 68004 68803 71185 74712 75209 77832 81464 82352 82687 83706 84138 85293 88364 89064 89072 89621 90154 93667 94644 96830 97571 100855 101080 101215 101672 102290 102694 103004 103053 103564 105707 107259 108241 109145 109494 111674 112094 113274 114849 115440 115620 115898 116664 116811 117772 122097 122822 125939 125946 125960 126882 127600 128287 130749 134106 136330 139855 143058 148268 149196 155870 156844 157227 157874 160991 162490 163599 163762 167333 168214 168835 170006 176303 181265 190589 192732 195252 198567 201973 203691 204909 224516
4388: normal: emacs mail-mode fails RFC822 section 3.4.7
4997: normal: mh-e will fail inc askes for POP passwd.
9741: normal: Emacs save and auto-save not reliable
18204: wishlist: emacs20: bruce doesn't work
21006: wishlist: ange-ftp extension to use scp
21818: normal: tar-mode: badly handles compressed files inside tarball
21928: normal: jka-compr: should not gzip already gzip'ed data when saving
22590: wishlist: emacs20: Debsums are not generated by default, package should bring them.
22791: normal: movemail in netscape/emacs
24499: normal: emacs19: Repeatable segmentation fault
26018: normal: Installation of emacs may not work
26348: wishlist: Mime support for emacs
26451: wishlist: iso-accents-mode should give hints
27399: wishlist: latin 1 not standard
27910: wishlist: emacs20 shouldn't provide www-browser
28335: normal: Debian Emacs breaks GPL?
28708: wishlist: emacs: font is too big & request for feature
33142: normal: emacs20: No key to delete previous char in default setup
34664: normal: emacs19: Delete key does not work as expected
38108: normal: emacs: ispell-change-dictionary doesn't know current installed dictionaries
39776: normal: emacs19: Suddenly unable to type iso-8859-1 (latin1) characters
40474: normal: general: Emacs packages should use --no-site-file --no-init-file for compilation
42433: normal: emacs20: mh-comp.el incompatible with nmh-1.0.1
43183: normal: keyboard handling
43184: normal: delete handling
44709: wishlist: emacs20: TeX mode doesn't understand \( \) and \[ \]
46612: normal: Keyboard fix for emacs20*.deb
47324: normal: Conflict between packages gnats-user and emacs20
47675: normal: perl-mode: bad indentation if no trailing comma in nested hashes
48543: normal: -xrm command line option insufficiently documented; perhaps buggy
48719: normal: emacs20: segfault calling vm-mail
48813: wishlist: emacs20: a patch for better XIM support
48864: normal: automatic site-specific subdirs in load-path not added
48913: normal: emacs20 and emacs20-el in potato broken -- debian-rundir missing (again?)
48923: normal: 20.4: `browse-url-new-dwindow-p' is not consulted
49237: normal: [fixed in 21.1] vc-insert-headers thinks they already exist, when using CVS
50389: normal: emacs20: The backspace and delete keys both give "delete"
51708: normal: vhdl-mode spits out warning
52086: normal: emacs20: small cperl-mode indentation quirks
54246: normal: "'" stop responding
56176: wishlist: emacs20: Confusing and incorrect advice concerning X resources in manual
56411: normal: emacs20: movemail from 20.2 still suid-registered
57374: normal: emacs20: segfaults with bbdb
61167: normal: emacs20: not compliant with new site-lisp policy (will be fixed in emacs21)
62016: normal: emacs20: if *scratch* is the current buffer, it cannot be killed
62853: normal: emacs20: should *not* include /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el
62854: normal: emacsen-common: Include /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el
63345: normal: emacs20: Incorrect Dependancy
63763: normal: emacs20: Backspace and Delete keys both do a backspace in X11
63774: normal: emacs20: Error in ediff.texi causes error during build
64148: wishlist: emacs20: unable to append a dictionary to ispell-dictionary-alist
64236: normal: when version number changes, junk is left behind
65075: normal: emacs insists on using `xv' to display an image in email
65196: normal: emacs20: cursor sometimes moves when window is unmapped then mapped
65290: normal: older 20.x files not properly cleaned up on install
65434: normal: emacs: gnus cannot process new mail
65479: normal: emacs20: Tab spacing in emacs 20 is erratic
65480: wishlist: emacs20: Mail-mode uses indent-relative
65552: normal: emacs20: debian-emacs-flavor no longer set in startup.elc, auctex needs
66243: normal: emacs20 is no longuer registered as an alternative for editor
67572: normal: Emacs exhibits memory leak with w3.
67828: normal: emacs20: mailcap-parse-mailcaps reverses priorities in /etc/mailcap
68004: normal: calc 2.02f-1.3 and cvs-pcl mess up installation of emacs20 20.7-2
68803: wishlist: rmail: unnecessary saving upon checking for new mail
71185: normal: emacs -f gdb
74712: normal: emacs20 needs ncurses-bin
75209: normal: emacs20: autoinsert insert wrong LaTeX commands
77832: wishlist: nicer defaut colors for emacs
81464: normal: Emacs 20 and rpath
82352: wishlist: emacs20: backslash-region command for sh-mode (with patch)
82687: wishlist: emacs20 should replace emacs19
83706: normal: vm-autoload not included in 20.7 distribution
84138: normal: Emacs: font-lock error whith (La)Tex files
85293: normal: emacs20: xterm emacs description is too dumb
88364: normal: Viper `:help' command fails
89064: normal: `M-x man' displays hyphens in man page wrong
89072: wishlist: a variable debian-version would be useful
89621: minor: tcl.el doesn't indent tcl code correctly
90154: normal: emacs20 doesn't provide "editor"
93667: normal: emacs20: should have /usr/share/info/emacs.info -> emacs-20.info link
94644: normal: emacs20: gnus/message.el compiled incorrectly?
96830: wishlist: emacs for remote servers
97571: normal: Wrong colouring in auctex
100855: wishlist: emacs20; Add auto-save for spooled PostScript
101080: normal: Doesn't update resolver settings
101215: minor: [PATCH] menu icon has too many colors, no alpha channel
101672: normal: ccmode info entry is not installed
102290: wishlist: completion in emacs shell mode work like it does from xterm
102694: minor: menu under X doesn't refresh correctly
103004: normal: emacs20: Modeline is inverse video only on first frame
103053: normal: skip-chars-forward regex undocumentedly needs to have '-' chars occureing at end of regex escaped
103564: normal: emacs20: info files are provided by emacs20-doc but registered by emacs20
105707: minor: -f find-file-read-only failure causing strange locale-related minibuf output
107259: normal: enable non-Latin-1 characters by default
108241: minor: Info hyperlink for reftex is broken
109145: normal: supercite does not honour sc-nested-citation-p for blank lines with sc-cite-blank-lines-p set to `t'
109494: normal: "sgml-mode validate" should call "nsgmls", not "sgmls".
111674: normal: 'browse-url-new-window-p' don't work
112094: normal: emacs20: Repeatable segfault prompted by cwd
113274: normal: emacs20: Emacs seems to freeze while typing ) in c mode
114849: grave: Emacs and VM can lose mail if sendmail fails !
115440: normal: vc: Buffers important messages from cvs
115620: normal: emacs20: ediff: does not remove auto-save file when given merge-file-buffer argument
115898: normal: emacs20: perl-mode scanning error - mismatched parens '}'
116664: wishlist: emacs20: emacs 21.1 released
116811: normal: emacs20: linked against obsolete libxaw6 package
117772: wishlist: emacs20: Info files not working
122097: important: Emacs freezes under X (GNU/Hurd)
122822: wishlist: emacs20: opening directory fails on c-x c-f
125939: wishlist: emacs20: scrolling with mouse wheel
125946: wishlist: emacs20: session management
125960: normal: emacs20: garbage with font -misc-fixed-17
126882: normal: emacs20: c++-mode in auto-mode-alist doesn't work
127600: wishlist: emacs20: SGML mode should be activated for .xsl files
128287: wishlist: emacs20: rcs2log is duplicated in package cvs
130749: normal: emacs20: allout.el outlineify-sticky assumes next-line-add-newlines
134106: serious: emacs20_20.7-13(powerpc/unstable): nocombreloc still not working
136330: normal: emacs20: no links in Emacs21 info doc
139855: normal: emacs20: Byte-compiled files are outdated wrt sources
143058: normal: emacs20: keyboard not 8-bit clean with -nw
148268: normal: Info-default-directory-list needs /usr/share/info/
149196: normal: emacs20: vc.el adds new files at v2.1 if other v2.x file found
155870: normal: emacs20: perl-mode misparses /(xx$)/
156844: normal: emacs20: ALT != Meta key
157227: normal: emacs20: X selection misbehavior
157874: normal: emacs20: gdb mode wants to be relinked,
160991: normal: emacs20: ispell uses /usr/dict/words instead of default dictionary
162490: normal: emacs20 and c-comment-start-regexp
163599: normal: Start script clobbers EMACSLOADPATH
163762: normal: emacs20: dired mode broken (by GNU coreutils?)
167333: normal: emacs20: dired needs update for coreutils?
168214: minor: emacs19: In manual, it states 'emacses' where should say 'emacsen'.
168835: important: emacs20: fails to install: some problem with ucf?
170006: serious: emacs20: FTBFS: Obsolete Build-Depends on libxaw-dev
176303: normal: emacs20: fill wrong some lines
181265: normal: emacs font becomes double spaced
190589: normal: emacs20: MULE 4.1, new features and bug fixes
192732: grave: emacs20: call-process-region creates tempfile insecurely
195252: minor: emacs20: Initial opening file not included in c-x c-f history
198567: grave: emacs20: using make-temp-name insecurely
201973: normal: emacs20: cyrillic-beylorussian input-method works incorrectly
203691: normal: emacs20: purge didn't get dirs? (not installed)
204909: normal: emacs20 problems in strict POSIX mode
224516: normal: Remove emacs20 from unstable?
emacs20-el: 15876 23515 26985 27645 28400 29861 33542 37772 38069 48987 66537 69892 91554 120054 120058 181349
15876: normal: emacs-el: pascal mode halt emacs and load CPU 100%
23515: wishlist: Visible iso-accents-mode
26985: normal: emacs20-el: compile.el, perl -w errors parsing
27645: normal: ediff screws up highlighting
28400: normal: Incorrect package dependency -- emacs20-el
29861: normal: emacs auto-compression-mode bunzip2 broken
33542: normal: bzip2 in emacs20 fails
37772: wishlist: Please add rcp.el
38069: normal: emacs20-el: A patch for a few little bugs
48987: normal: Bug or incompatibility with previous face.el version?
66537: normal: emacs20-el: ispell.el pb with accented characters with default dict
69892: normal: emacs ispell doesn't know Italian
91554: normal: Package emacs20-el still has at least one file in /usr/doc
120054: wishlist: emacs20-el: maildir support for display-time
120058: wishlist: emacs20-el: maildir support for display-time
181349: normal: emacs has files in /usr/local
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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