From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs build number in version Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vcjkibzl.fsf@zelenka.enovance.com> <87aa0vuokd.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338038357 20697 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2012 13:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 13:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 15:19:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1SYGtj-0002jK-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 15:19:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYGti-0004yW-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYGtg-0004yP-C9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYGte-0002Dy-Bn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:50501) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYGte-0002Di-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:06 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09MCpYd/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="182614971" Original-Received: from 76-10-150-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.150.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 26 May 2012 09:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7EF7B58C01; Sat, 26 May 2012 09:19:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87aa0vuokd.fsf@gmail.com> (Vitalie Spinu's message of "Sat, 26 May 2012 14:14:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150648 Archived-At: > This looks like very much related. I've just updated emacs-snapshot on > Ubuntu and I cannot start emacs because of this error in defadvice: > (error "Cannot open doc string file \"/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/etc/DOC-24.1.50.1\"") > For example: > (defadvice delete-backward-char (before delete-empty-pair activate) > (if (eq (cdr (assq (char-before) skeletons-alist)) (char-after)) > (and (char-after) (delete-char 1)))) There are 2 bugs here: - a packaging bug: the file should not be missing. - a robustness bug: defadvice should fail gracefully in this case, since it does not really need to docstring to do its job. I think the first is on Ubuntu's side, but please file a proper bug report with M-x report-emacs-bug for the second. Stefan