From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12981: list-packages (void-function mailcap-parse-mailcaps) due to an old mailcap.el file Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1353770850.40719.YahooMailNeo@web171603.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353782732 7147 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 18:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:45:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12981@debbugs.gnu.org To: frances frederic Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 19:45:43 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKjX-0003Vc-Nj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:45:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57259 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKjM-0006JD-Od for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKjK-0006J7-EM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKjJ-0001fk-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKjJ-0001fg-AI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKkn-0002Tx-WC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:47:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12981 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12981-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12981.13537828129524 (code B ref 12981); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12981) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2012 18:46:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36928 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKkd-0002TY-49 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:34101) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKkb-0002TR-Ep for 12981@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKj4-0005Om-ST; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:14 -0500 X-Spook: e-bomb genetic AUTODIN Ron Brown Semtex EuroFed Arnett IMF X-Ran: OuX.3rR[K&MXl\l{u.R:$&$+R!HC.B*73P`Kv:2JTd&2(/r2jjL0e@m\6?HN%a#|V:|Gr[ X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <1353770850.40719.YahooMailNeo@web171603.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> (frances frederic's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:27:30 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67407 Archived-At: frances frederic wrote: > M-x locate-library =C2=A0mailcap > =C2=A0=C2=A0- /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/attic/mailcap.el =C2=A0 (th= is one did not contains =C2=A0=C2=A0mailcap-parse-mailcaps) Thanks for the report. I'm not sure there is anything Emacs can do about this. That file is not part of Emacs, it is part of "flim". In general, you can break Emacs in arbitrary ways by installing arbitrary packages at the head of load-path. This issue was supposedly fixed in Debian flim a decade ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D110224