Bug 911964
| Summary: | XEmacs incompatibility with emacs-common-ess (comint issue) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | William D. McCoy <wdmccoy> |
| Component: | xemacs | Assignee: | Jerry James <loganjerry> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 23 | CC: | jamatos, loganjerry, steve.traylen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2016-02-18 03:37:24 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
William D. McCoy
2013-02-17 01:25:26 UTC
I meant to say that this appears to be an incompatibility with xemacs-ess not with emacs-common-ess (although the source rpm for the xemacs-ess that I have installed is emacs-common-ess-12.09-2.fc17.src.rpm). This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '17'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 17 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Moving to Rawhide. I've done some work to try to solve this, but I'm afraid that the Emacs comint.el and XEmacs comint.el are light years apart at this time. Fixing this is going to be difficult. I *could* provide a band-aid that just makes XEmacs shut up, but it wouldn't really Do The Right Thing. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle. Changing version to '23'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23 I have updated the package in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10494136 and while doing that I have removed the xemacs sub-packages. The purpose of the build was to remove the FTBFS status that could remove the package from Fedora. :-) I have obsoleted the xemacs sub-packages since the build process fails and upstream says that they are not supported. If upstream change their stance we can always bring the xemacs sub-packages back to fedora. Upstream XEmacs development has basically come to a halt. This bug is never going to be fixed, I'm afraid. I'm closing this bug for now. If a developer surfaces who wishes to do the necessary syncing with Emacs, we can reopen this bug. |