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Bug#584306: marked as done (emacs-goodies-el: tail.el on non-existent file)

Your message dated Tue, 3 Jul 2018 16:33:24 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#584303: tail.el - Bug reports
has caused the Debian Bug report #584306,
regarding emacs-goodies-el: tail.el on non-existent file
to be marked as done.

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Package: emacs-goodies-el
Version: 33.5
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/tail.el

Doing M-x tail-file /some/non-existent/filename shows

    Process tail exited abnormally with code 1
    tail: cannot open `/some/non-existent/filename' for reading: No such file or directory

If the file must exist then tail-file might use interactive "f" to make
the filename reader demand an existing file.  Alternately if a
non-existent file is meant to be allowed then it might run "tail -F" so
as to follow both existence and content.

Dunno if tail -F is a GNU-ism.  I suspect it's not traditional for
ancient unix but that doesn't have to matter for debian.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el depends on:
ii  bash                      4.0-7          The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  dpkg                      1.15.7.2       Debian package management system
ii  emacs21 [emacsen]         21.4a+1-5.7    The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs22-gtk [emacsen]     22.3+1-1.2     The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK use
ii  emacs23 [emacsen]         23.2+1-2       The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  xemacs21-mule [emacsen]   21.4.22-2      highly customizable text editor --

Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el recommends:
ii  dict                       1.11.2+dfsg-2 dictionary client
ii  perl-doc                   5.10.1-2      Perl documentation
ii  wget                       1.12-2        retrieves files from the web

emacs-goodies-el suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Control: fixed -1 emacs-goodies-el/38.0

Dear Kevin, Peter, and Benjamin,

Sorry this bug wasn't resolved as expected.  The Debian Emacsen team
dropped the now-unmaintained tail.el in commit
a5aa8d7c0c8f8966e4e86bc692575416e0634888 which was part of
emacs-goodies-el/38.0.  The bug associated with the removal of tail.el
is #584305

If an upstream maintainer for tail.el materialises and there is demand
for this package, then we can package it, and this bug can be
reassigned to elpa-tail.

Sincerely,
Nicholas

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