Bug#413496: emacs-snapshot-el: ps-print has stopped working.
Package: emacs-snapshot-el
Version: 1:20070302-1
Severity: normal
In the latest upgrade, a change to the ps-print package has broken it
badly.
The changelog says:
2007-03-01 Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
* ps-print.el: Replace (defvar VAR nil) by (defvar VAR).
Unfortunately, this is not a valid substitution.
Even though INITVALUE is optional, the defvar documentation states:
If INITVALUE is missing, SYMBOL's value is not set.
which means that even though there is a defvar for (say) `ps-lf-cache',
there still is no variable defined of that name. Or put in other
words, this form fails with a void-variable error:
(progn (defvar xxx) xxx)
while this one succeeds:
(progn (defvar yyy nil) yyy)
returning `nil'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages emacs-snapshot-el depends on:
ii emacs-snapshot-common 1:20070302-1 The GNU Emacs editor's common infr
emacs-snapshot-el recommends no packages.
Versions of packages emacs-snapshot-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb
ii emacsen-common 1.4.17 Common facilities for all emacsen
Versions of packages emacs-snapshot-bin-common depends on:
ii emacs-snapshot-common 1:20070302-1 The GNU Emacs editor's common infr
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii liblockfile1 1.06.1 NFS-safe locking library, includes
Versions of packages emacs-snapshot depends on:
ii emacs-snapshot-bin-common 1:20070302-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set
Versions of packages emacs-snapshot-gtk depends on:
ii emacs-snapshot-bin-common 1:20070302-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.6-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-6 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
Versions of packages emacsen-common depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 6.1.6 collection of more utilities from
Versions of packages emacs-snapshot-el is related to:
ii dictionaries-common 0.70.12 Common utilities for spelling dict
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