bug#976: 23.0.60; incorrect code for filesets-get-filelist

[Drew Adams]

> >> I'm looking into whether this still exists in Emacs 25.  The code still
> >> is as you describe.  Can you give steps to reproduce a user-visible bug?
> >
> > My guess is that no one has changed the filesets code, so yes,
> > I'm pretty sure the problem is still there as reported.
> >
> > The user-visible bug is what I described.  See the original
> > report, which is quite detailed wrt the problem.
> >
> > See also the version of `filesets-get-filelist' that I sent (in
> > attachment throw.el).  It should be a fix.  If it does not fix
> > everything 100%, it is at least an improvement over the current
> > code, which is completely broken for :tree.
> >
> > You can also contact the original author of filesets.el.  As I
> > said in the bug report, the GNU Emacs version does not respect
> > what the author wrote, and it cannot possibly work (e.g., for
> > :tree).
> >
> > I can't really help more than this now.  I'm sure someone on
> > the Emacs Dev team can fix it, but there is not much interest
> > in filesets, it seems.
> >
> > Apparently there was only one person (Chong Yidong) who took a
> > look at the bug report, and he just asked someone else to look
> > into it.  And that person never followed up (didn't even reply
> > to Yidong's request, apparently).
> 
> OK, thanks for the reply.  The original report seems lost (the bug
> report at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=976 starts with
> your response, in fact).  But given what you've already provided, it
> seems that someone familiar with filesets can reproduce and test your
> fix.  We'll leave the bug open until someone gets to it.

Hi Andrew,

No, AFAICT the thread at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=976
is complete.  It starts with my bug report, which begins this way,
continuing from the bug title, which is "incorrect code for
filesets-get-filelist":

  The part that treats a :tree of the code defining
  `filesets-get-filelist' is not correct and never could have been
  correct. And it does not correspond to the (correct) code from the
  filesets author.  One wonders if the GNU Emacs code was ever tested.

Thx - Drew