Status of TODO remove obsolete bug-reporting commando

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

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I've been looking into the following TODO:

> ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting
commands.
> Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
> *** Related functions:
> **** gnus-bug
> **** report-calc-bug
> **** org-submit-bug-report
> **** lm-report-bug
> **** tramp-bug
> **** c-submit-bug-report
> [Do all of them need changing?]

The final question leaves the prospective contributor in some doubt. I
think the first step is to clarify what it is that should be done.

First: Do all of them need changing?  If yes, should we remove that
question in etc/TODO ?  If no, which ones are can we be sure that we
want to keep?  And which ones can we be sure that we want to remove?

I was able to find the following commands that are *not* mentioned in
the TODO:

- artist-submit-bug-report
- ediff-submit-report
- ps-mode-submit-bug-report
- reftex-report-bug
- vera-submit-bug-report
- verilog-submit-bug-report
- vhdl-submit-bug-report
- viper-submit-report        [obsolete package]

Should we also add them to the TODO, or is there a reason that they
have not been included?

Finally, the attached patch contains cleanups of things that already
seems to be removed, for example the `report-calc-bug' command that
has already been removed.

---

After having written the above message, I found this previous
discussion from 2008:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02740.html

This made me even more unsure as to what the current status is.
Is this TODO still applicable, and if so to what extent?

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas

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From 2eb7fa0ea31a0b53f8fd6e80e793e40d7c697252 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:08:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup of TODO to prefer report-emacs-bug

* etc/TODO: Remove already completed removal of `report-calc-bug'.
* lisp/calc/calc.el: Remove any mention of `report-calc-bug'.
* lisp/epg-config.el: Redefine `epg-bug-report-address' as obsolete
variable alias for `report-emacs-bug-address'.
* lisp/expand.el: Remove any mention of `expand-submit-report'.
* lisp/obsolete/fast-lock.el: Remove commented out code for
`fast-lock-submit-bug-report'.
---
 etc/TODO                   |  1 -
 lisp/calc/calc.el          |  5 ++---
 lisp/epg-config.el         |  4 ++--
 lisp/expand.el             |  3 ---
 lisp/obsolete/fast-lock.el | 17 -----------------
 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/TODO b/etc/TODO
index dc594a007e..fe2e583a38 100644
--- a/etc/TODO
+++ b/etc/TODO
@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
 Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
 *** Related functions:
 **** gnus-bug
-**** report-calc-bug
 **** org-submit-bug-report
 **** lm-report-bug
 **** tramp-bug
diff --git a/lisp/calc/calc.el b/lisp/calc/calc.el
index 35f13f9656..1496a741ab 100644
--- a/lisp/calc/calc.el
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc.el
@@ -37,13 +37,12 @@
 ;; work for the foreseeable future.
 ;;
 ;; Bug reports and suggestions are always welcome!  (Type M-x
-;; report-calc-bug to send them).
+;; report-emacs-bug to send them).
 
 ;; All functions, macros, and Lisp variables defined here begin with one
 ;; of the prefixes "math", "Math", or "calc", with the exceptions of
 ;; "full-calc", "full-calc-keypad", "another-calc", "quick-calc",
-;; "report-calc-bug", and "defmath".  User-accessible variables begin
-;; with "var-".
+;; and "defmath".  User-accessible variables begin with "var-".
 
 ;;; TODO:
 
diff --git a/lisp/epg-config.el b/lisp/epg-config.el
index 4502f90874..bb323e54fa 100644
--- a/lisp/epg-config.el
+++ b/lisp/epg-config.el
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ epg-package-name
 (defconst epg-version-number "1.0.0"
   "Version number of this package.")
 
-(defconst epg-bug-report-address "ueno@unixuser.org"
-  "Report bugs to this address.")
+(define-obsolete-variable-alias 'epg-bug-report-address
+  'report-emacs-bug-address "27.1")
 
 (defgroup epg ()
   "Interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)."
diff --git a/lisp/expand.el b/lisp/expand.el
index 0c4d343090..da76effc26 100644
--- a/lisp/expand.el
+++ b/lisp/expand.el
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
 ;;                  Jerome Santini <santini@chambord.univ-orleans.fr>,
 ;;                  Jari Aalto <jaalto@tre.tele.nokia.fi>.
 ;;
-;;   Please send me a word to give me your feeling about this feature or
-;; to explain me how you use it (your expansions table for example) using
-;; the function expand-submit-report.
 ;;; Code:
 \f
 ;;; Constants:
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/fast-lock.el b/lisp/obsolete/fast-lock.el
index b8d58fa13c..9ae6d91bde 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/fast-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/fast-lock.el
@@ -214,23 +214,6 @@ font-lock-face-list
                     (setq faces (cdr faces))))
            faces)))))
 
-;;(defun fast-lock-submit-bug-report ()
-;;  "Submit via mail a bug report on fast-lock.el."
-;;  (interactive)
-;;  (let ((reporter-prompt-for-summary-p t))
-;;    (reporter-submit-bug-report "simon@gnu.org" "fast-lock 3.14"
-;;     '(fast-lock-cache-directories fast-lock-minimum-size
-;;       fast-lock-save-others fast-lock-save-events fast-lock-save-faces
-;;       fast-lock-verbose)
-;;     nil nil
-;;     (concat "Hi Si.,
-;;
-;;I want to report a bug.  I've read the `Bugs' section of `Info' on Emacs, so I
-;;know how to make a clear and unambiguous report.  To reproduce the bug:
-;;
-;;Start a fresh editor via `" invocation-name " -no-init-file -no-site-file'.
-;;In the `*scratch*' buffer, evaluate:"))))
-
 (defgroup fast-lock nil
   "Font Lock support mode to cache fontification."
   :load 'fast-lock
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