Re: TODO item: obsolete bug-reporting commands

[Yoni Rabkin]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> Sorry for the delay in getting back on this, but I emailed everyone at
>>>> least twice, and allowed ample response time.
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> 
>>>> At the bottom this mail are two small patches for email addresses which
>>>> are outright broken, or simply don't exist anymore.
>>> 
>>> Could you send a patch that adds all the information you collected,
>>> directly in the files?
>
>> Is this what you had in mind?
>
> Almost perfect: can you fix your patch so as to remove all those
> spurious CVS/Entries thingies (hint: use "cvs diff" rather than
> "diff -r")?  Also please move the "Bug reports:" sections from within
> the "Commentary:" section to the very beginning of the file, right after
> the "Author:" and "Maintainer:" info.

OK, how about:

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Index: lisp/ediff.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/ediff.el,v
retrieving revision 1.99
diff -u -r1.99 ediff.el
--- lisp/ediff.el       10 Apr 2008 14:09:36 -0000      1.99
+++ lisp/ediff.el       16 Apr 2008 08:28:38 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 ;; Created: February 2, 1994
 ;; Keywords: comparing, merging, patching, tools, unix
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 20/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is
+;; filed in the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy
+;; of the bug report be sent to the maintainer's email address.
+
 (defconst ediff-version "2.81.2" "The current version of Ediff")
 (defconst ediff-date "April 06, 2008" "Date of last update")
 
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Index: lisp/emulation/viper.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/emulation/viper.el,v
retrieving revision 1.115
diff -u -r1.115 viper.el
--- lisp/emulation/viper.el     6 Apr 2008 19:26:00 -0000       1.115
+++ lisp/emulation/viper.el     16 Apr 2008 08:28:40 -0000
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 ;; Author: Michael Kifer <address@hidden>
 ;; Keywords: emulations
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 20/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is
+;; filed in the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy
+;; of the bug report be sent to the maintainer's email address.
+
 (defconst viper-version "3.14 of April 06, 2008"
   "The current version of Viper")
 
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Index: lisp/obsolete/hilit19.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/obsolete/hilit19.el,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 hilit19.el
--- lisp/obsolete/hilit19.el    11 Apr 2008 07:44:47 -0000      1.19
+++ lisp/obsolete/hilit19.el    16 Apr 2008 08:28:41 -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
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cmacexp.el,v
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -u -r1.50 cmacexp.el
--- lisp/progmodes/cmacexp.el   10 Apr 2008 14:10:37 -0000      1.50
+++ lisp/progmodes/cmacexp.el   16 Apr 2008 08:28:42 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
 ;; Adapted-By: ESR
 ;; Keywords: c
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is filed in the
+;; Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy of the bug
+;; report be sent to the maintainer's email address. However, the
+;; maintainer prefers not to be the only person maintaining this file
+;; in future.
+
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
Index: lisp/progmodes/ps-mode.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/ps-mode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 ps-mode.el
--- lisp/progmodes/ps-mode.el   10 Apr 2008 14:10:40 -0000      1.28
+++ lisp/progmodes/ps-mode.el   16 Apr 2008 08:28:42 -0000
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@
 ;; Version:    1.1h, 16 Jun 2005
 ;; Keywords:   PostScript, languages
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 18/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is
+;; filed in the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy
+;; of the bug report be sent to the maintainer's email address, 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.".
+
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
Index: lisp/progmodes/simula.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/simula.el,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -r1.42 simula.el
--- lisp/progmodes/simula.el    10 Apr 2008 14:10:40 -0000      1.42
+++ lisp/progmodes/simula.el    16 Apr 2008 08:28:44 -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 ()
Index: lisp/progmodes/vera-mode.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/vera-mode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 vera-mode.el
--- lisp/progmodes/vera-mode.el 8 Jan 2008 20:46:21 -0000       1.9
+++ lisp/progmodes/vera-mode.el 16 Apr 2008 08:28:44 -0000
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 ;; Keywords:    languages vera
 ;; WWW:         http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vera-mode.html
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 18/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is
+;; filed in the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy
+;; of the bug report be sent to the maintainer's email address.
+
 (defconst vera-version "2.18"
   "Vera Mode version number.")
 
Index: lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 verilog-mode.el
--- lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el      28 Mar 2008 15:47:24 -0000      1.18
+++ lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el      16 Apr 2008 08:28:50 -0000
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
 ;;     http://www.veripool.com
 ;; Keywords: languages
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 19/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is
+;; filed in the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy
+;; of the bug report be sent to the maintainer's email address.
+
 ;;    This code supports Emacs 21.1 and later
 ;;    And XEmacs 21.1 and later
 ;;    Please do not make changes that break Emacs 21.  Thanks!
Index: lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -r1.70 vhdl-mode.el
--- lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el 5 Apr 2008 03:43:06 -0000       1.70
+++ lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el 16 Apr 2008 08:29:00 -0000
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 ;; Keywords:    languages vhdl
 ;; WWW:         http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vhdl-mode.html
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 18/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is
+;; filed in the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy
+;; of the bug report be sent to the maintainer's email address.
+
 (defconst vhdl-version "3.33.6"
   "VHDL Mode version number.")
 
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes/artist.el,v
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diff -u -r1.37 artist.el
--- lisp/textmodes/artist.el    10 Apr 2008 14:10:41 -0000      1.37
+++ lisp/textmodes/artist.el    16 Apr 2008 08:29:04 -0000
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
 ;; Release-date: 6-Aug-2004
 ;; Location:     http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
 
+;; Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> contacted the maintainer of this
+;; file on 19/3/2008, and the maintainer agreed that when a bug is filed in
+;; the Emacs bug reporting system against this file, a copy of the bug
+;; report be sent to the maintainer's email address.
+
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -105,7 +110,6 @@
 ;; If you add a new drawing mode, send it to me, and I would gladly
 ;; include in the next release!
 
-
 ;;; Installation:
 
 ;; To use artist, put this in your .emacs:
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