Bug 7757

Summary:	octave is missing emacs file
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Götz Waschk <goetz.waschk>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Claire Revillet <grenoya>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	grenoya, remco, stormi-mageia
Version:	2	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	octave	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Götz Waschk 2012-10-10 12:01:04 CEST

This probably is valid for Cauldron as well. In Emacs, when you want to enter octave mode (with M-x octave-mode) you'll get the message:

Cannot load file: octave-hlp.

The file octave-hlp.el is missing from the octave package. It is also not part of the upstream source but you can find it just fine using Google.

Comment 1 Götz Waschk 2012-10-10 12:35:02 CEST

by the way, this file was part of ancient (Mandriva 2009 era) emacs versions. So maybe the startup file from /etc/emacs/site-start.d shouldn't load it anymore.

Source RPM: (none) => octave

Comment 2 Remco Rijnders 2012-10-10 12:39:36 CEST

Hi GÃ¶tz, thank you for your report. I'm inclined to say that since this file is not part of the upstream project that either:

- It is an upstream problem, and a report should be opened there;
- It should be packaged seperately;
- It is a feature request to Mageia to include the file in its package.

As such, I'll Cc the maintainer of the package in Mageia for her input on this.

@grenoya, any thoughts?

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM
CC: (none) => grenoya, remco

Comment 3 Götz Waschk 2012-10-10 13:27:24 CEST

I don't think it is an upstream bug. octave.el is an extra source in Mageia's rpm, it is not part of upstream octave at all.

Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-28 18:41:28 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => stormi
Assignee: bugsquad => grenoya

Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-28 18:41:34 CEST

Keywords: UPSTREAM => (none)

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:09:36 CEST

This message is a reminder that Mageia 2 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately one month from now Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 2. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '2'.

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Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-23 16:13:12 CET

Mageia 2 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''22 November''. Mageia 2 is no
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD