Re: TODO item: obsolete bug-reporting commands

[Yoni Rabkin]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Indeed, we may want to revisit this in the future, but in any case, it's
>>> useful to redirect report to the normal Emacs address if the claimed
>>> maintainer is not the maintainer any more: for those problems, we don't
>>> have any reason to wait.
>
>> Should I send out emails to the package maintainers in question and ask
>> them? I'm asking because I wound not send such email on behalf of the
>> Emacs developers without the explicit permission of this list.
>
> Yes, please do.
>
>> Based on the answers (or lack thereof), I could then prepare a patch-set
>> which changes the appropriate addresses in their corresponding packages.
>
> That would be great,
>
> For those who don't respond, you may want to add a note about "didn't
> respond when contacted <DATE>" at the beginning of the file, next to the
> maintainer's name.

Sorry for the delay in getting back on this, but I emailed everyone at
least twice, and allowed ample response time.

At the bottom this mail are two small patches for email addresses which
are outright broken, or simply don't exist anymore.

I emailed Jay Belanger twice (on 17/3/2008 and 31/3/2008) and got no
answer, I know that he is active on this list. So Jay, please drop me a
line if you read this.

The maintainers of the following files would be happy to receive bug
reports via the bug tracking system, once it's up and running:

artist.el 
calc-misc.el
viper*.el
ediff*.el
vhdl-mode.el
vera-mode.el 
verilog-mode.el

The maintainer of ps-mode.el said:

"Yes, sure. But only if those e-mails have a link to the bug report
system, where I can cancel these e-mails if I want to."

The maintainer of cmacexp.el said:

"I do not use cmacexp.el any more, but yes, I would like to receive bug
reports.  However, I would prefer not to be the only responsible person
for those bugs."



2008-04-12  Yoni Rabkin  <address@hidden>
     
     * hilit19.el: Abandoned file, changed the maintainer to
       address@hidden
     
     * simple.el: Abandoned file, changed the maintainer to
       address@hidden

Index: hilit19.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/obsolete/hilit19.el,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 hilit19.el
--- hilit19.el  11 Apr 2008 07:44:47 -0000      1.19
+++ hilit19.el  12 Apr 2008 16:39:25 -0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
 ;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-;; Author:   Jonathan Stigelman <address@hidden>
+;; Author:   Jonathan Stigelman <address@hidden> (broken email address. 
checked April 2008)
 ;; Maintainer: FSF
 ;;     (actually no longer maintained)
 ;; Keywords: faces
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
   (require 'reporter)
   (and (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to submit a report on hilit19? ")
        (reporter-submit-bug-report
-       "Jonathan Stigelman <address@hidden>"
+       "address@hidden"
        "hilit19.el (Release 2.19)"
        (and (y-or-n-p "Do you need to include a dump hilit variables? ")
             (append

Index: simula.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/simula.el,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -r1.42 simula.el
--- simula.el   10 Apr 2008 14:10:40 -0000      1.42
+++ simula.el   12 Apr 2008 15:47:42 -0000
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 
2008
 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-;; Author: Hans Henrik Eriksen <address@hidden>
-;; Maintainer: address@hidden
+;; Author: Hans Henrik Eriksen <address@hidden> (invalid email address, 
checked April 2008)
+;; Maintainer: address@hidden (invalid email address, checked April 2008)
 ;; Adapted-By: ESR
 ;; Keywords: languages
 
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@
 
 ;; defuns for submitting bug reports
 
-(defconst simula-mode-help-address "address@hidden"
+(defconst simula-mode-help-address "address@hidden"
   "Address accepting submission of `simula-mode' bug reports.")
 
 (defun simula-submit-bug-report ()

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