[jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Richard Stallman]

Would someone please fix this bug, if it still exists, in Emacs 22 and
the trunk, then ack?

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From: John Darrington <jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:01:53 +0800
Subject: change-log-redate

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In GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-01-04 on saens, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Running change-log-redate on a ChangeLog file which 
contains strings like:
 
 Tue Jan  9 07:20:05 WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

Changes them to 

 1999-11-30  WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

which is not what I expected.


Recent input:
M-x r e <tab> p o <tab> r r <backspace> t <tab> <r
eturn>

Recent messages:
Loading 50speechd-el (source)...done
Loading /home/res/jmd/lisp/aegis.el (source)...done
Loading /home/res/jmd/lisp/pspp-mode.el (source)...done
Loading crypt++...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
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[jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Richard Stallman]

[I sent this message a month ago but did not get a response.]

Would someone please fix this bug, if it still exists, in Emacs 22 and
the trunk, then ack?

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To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
From: John Darrington <jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:01:53 +0800
Subject: change-log-redate

This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
not to your local site managers!
Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have
translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.

In GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-01-04 on saens, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Running change-log-redate on a ChangeLog file which 
contains strings like:
 
 Tue Jan  9 07:20:05 WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

Changes them to 

 1999-11-30  WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

which is not what I expected.


Recent input:
M-x r e <tab> p o <tab> r r <backspace> t <tab> <r
eturn>

Recent messages:
Loading 50speechd-el (source)...done
Loading /home/res/jmd/lisp/aegis.el (source)...done
Loading /home/res/jmd/lisp/pspp-mode.el (source)...done
Loading crypt++...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading add-log...done
Making completion list...
Loading view...done
Making completion list...
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Re: [jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Nick Roberts]

Richard Stallman writes:
 > [I sent this message a month ago but did not get a response.]
 > 
 > Would someone please fix this bug, if it still exists, in Emacs 22 and
 > the trunk, then ack?

I did suggest removing change-log-redate but I didn't get a response either.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

Re: [jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Richard Stallman]

    I did suggest removing change-log-redate but I didn't get a response either.

It doesn't make sense to delete a feature just because it has a bug.

Could you (or someone) please work on fixing the bug?

Re: [jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Nick Roberts]

 >     I did suggest removing change-log-redate but I didn't get a response
 >     either.
 > 
 > It doesn't make sense to delete a feature just because it has a bug.

When I looked at it, I couldn't see how it ever worked.  Unfortuanately Dave
Love doesn't appear to be around at the moment to defend it.  To be topical,
I could add a command called localize-emacs and someone might report that
it was broken.  Would you then expect someone to fix it?

 > Could you (or someone) please work on fixing the bug?

How about asking the question:

Has anybody on this mailing list ever successfully (or even unsuccessfully)
used change-log-redate?

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

Re: [jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Richard Stallman]

    When I looked at it, I couldn't see how it ever worked.  Unfortuanately Dave
    Love doesn't appear to be around at the moment to defend it.

Whether it ever worked or not, it might be worth fixing.

								  To be topical,
    I could add a command called localize-emacs and someone might report that
    it was broken.  Would you then expect someone to fix it?

Before adding it I would want a discussion of whether it is useful.
If it seemed useful but didn't work, I would then turn to you as its
author to fix it.

The question now is not "did it ever work" but "is it useful".

Given that the current date format was introduced in Emacs 21
(or perhaps earlier), I guess the need for this function is done with.
So it is ok to delete it.

Re: [jmd@csse.uwa.edu.au: change-log-redate]

[Nick Roberts]

 > Given that the current date format was introduced in Emacs 21
 > (or perhaps earlier), I guess the need for this function is done with.
 > So it is ok to delete it.

I've done this to the trunk and EMACS_22_BASE.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob