Hi, I'm triaging old Emacs bugs in Debian.
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:35:11 +0100 Stephan A Suerken wrote: > Package: emacs21 > Version: 21.2-1 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > Hello, > > I had severe problems using pcl-cvs under woody over ssh: "Status" produces > garbled output. I.e., the output differs with each call, and cvs actions on > this > garbled list can actually lead to very unwanted results ;). > > It seems the problem is somewhat known, and that is it related to glibc. This > message of pcl-cvs's author gives some more explanation and a patch (the patch > works fine for me): > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-01/msg00733.html The patch mentioned there had been in Emacs CVS for a while, but it was reverted in 2005 because it causes other problems. > The current version in unstable (21.2-6) is also affected, although it runs > with the new glibc (2.3.1). It seems this bug is only caused by some (old?) combinations of glibc, ssh, and CVS. Do you still have this problem on more recent systems? Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
