report-emacs-bug doesn't work unless you have emacs24-el installed
Bug #1172214 reported by
James Hudon
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| emacs24 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On Ubuntu 12.10
1. cleanly install emacs `apt-get install emacs24`
2. `M-x report-emacs-bug`
3. Expected: report-emacs-bug completes and leaves you in the email buffer to send your report
4. Actual: The "Load-path shadows:" step fails. The backtrace reveals that it is looking for "simple.el" and can't find it. (only simple.elc exists)
Work-around:
install emacs24-el and try again
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| Glenn Morris (rgm+lp) wrote | #1 |
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I can't reproduce this on Debian testing with Emacs 24.3.
report-emacs-bug ignores any errors in the call to list-load-
you a problem. Not that a missing simple.el should cause an error anyway.
BTW, since emacs24-el is only 14MB in size, I wish distributions would stop splitting Emacs this way.
14MB is a tiny amount of space in this day and age, and the .el files are basically an essential part of Emacs's
documentation, if nothing else.