On 2015-08-17 20:59:22, Mike Crowe spake thus: > Package: emacs24 > Version: 24.4+1-5 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > Emacs 24.4 and 24.5 suffer from a signal-handling bug which can cause X11 > Emacs > to hang during a paste/yank operation. This was reported as an Emacs bug at > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737 and eventually fixed on > both > master(0592cefd03f1de2f04b721d07a16e6e0a9e48f73) and the emacs-24 branch > (a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2). > > I've been running with emacs24 24.4+1-5 (from Jessie) with > a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2 (attached) applied for a month now > and > the bug > seems to be well and truly fixed. > > It seems unlikely that there will be another upstream emacs-24 release. > > Is there any chance that you could apply this fix for Stretch and then > potentially as a stable update for Jessie? > > Thanks. > > Mike.
Dear Maintainer, I'd like to second Mike's request that the upstream commit[0] be cherry-picked into the Debian emacs24 package, if at all possible. I'm currently running a locally modified version of emacs24-lucid 24.5+1-1 that has the patch applied, and it is a great improvement. For people whose workflow causes them to trip over this bug, the out-of-the-box behavior amounts to "paste into emacs" operations not working, which is crippling. Thanks for considering it, -Al [0] a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2
