bug#856: marked as done (23.0.60; apropos-command and broken fun aliases)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #856,
regarding 23.0.60; apropos-command and broken fun aliases
to be marked as done.

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> 23.0.60; apropos-command and broken fun aliases
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> Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:15:28 +0200
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> On my system, the following raises an error when evalled with CVS
> emacs -Q:
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> (apropos-command (quote ("vc")) 1)
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> Backtrace:
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> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function vc-previous-version)
>   documentation(vc-previous-version t)
>   apropos-command(("vc") 1)
>   call-interactively(apropos-command nil nil)
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> There are actually two problems related to this bug:
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> (1) In vc-hooks.el, there is a definition
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> (define-obsolete-function-alias
>  'vc-previous-version 'vc-previous-revision "23.1"),
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> but the function `vc-previous-revision' is not defined.
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> (2) `apropos-command' should handle errors caused by broken function
> aliases. Else, cases like (1) make `apropos-command' partly unusable.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
>  of 2008-08-29 on green
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
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> Re: bug#856: 23.0.60; apropos-command and broken fun aliases
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> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:45:04 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Michael Heerdegen wrote:
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> > (1) In vc-hooks.el, there is a definition
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> > (define-obsolete-function-alias
> >  'vc-previous-version 'vc-previous-revision "23.1"),
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> > but the function `vc-previous-revision' is not defined.
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> 2008-09-01  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
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>             * vc-hooks.el (vc-previous-version): Move alias to vc.el.
>             * vc.el (vc-default-previous-version): Move alias here
>             * from vc-hooks, and fix name typos.  (Bug#856)
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