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bug#12981: list-packages (void-function mailcap-parse-mailcaps) due to a


From: Glenn Morris
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
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

frances frederic wrote:

> M-x locate-library  mailcap
>   - /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/attic/mailcap.el   (this one did not 
> contains   mailcap-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=110224





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