Package: emacs24 Version: 24.2+1-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
The file "file1" (attached) has the following contents: 00000000 6c e2 80 99 c3 a9 0a 74 65 73 74 e9 0a |l......test..| 1. Open "file1" with "emacs -Q". It is regarded as an in-is13194-devanagari-unix file. 2. Type M-: (set-buffer-modified-p t) to mark the buffer as modified (so that one can save it). 3. Save the file with C-x C-s. It is proposed: [...] Select one of the safe coding systems listed below, or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer to remove or modify the problematic characters, or specify any other coding system (and risk losing the problematic characters). raw-text emacs-mule no-conversion 4. Choose raw-text (the default) or no-conversion. One can assume that the file will not be modified. But it gets corrupted: one obtains a file "file2" (attached) with the following contents: 00000000 6c e0 a5 88 80 99 e0 a4 a5 e0 a4 8a 0a 74 65 73 |l............tes| 00000010 74 e0 a4 bc 0a |t....| Note: Actually "file1" has mixed UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 contents due to a user error. But due to this bug, an attempt to fix the problem with Emacs makes things even worse! BTW, I had the same problem in the past when attempting to edit an mbox file with Emacs (in this case, having mixed UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 contents is normal). How Emacs interprets such contents doesn't matter, but by default, it mustn't corrupt the file on saving. There is no such problem with GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (Debian package emacs23 23.4+1-4). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages emacs24 depends on: ii emacs24-bin-common 24.2+1-1 ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libgif4 4.1.6-10 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3 ii libgnutls26 2.12.20-2 ii libgomp1 4.7.2-4 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libm17n-0 1.6.3-2 ii libmagickcore5 8:6.7.7.10-5 ii libmagickwand5 8:6.7.7.10-5 ii libncurses5 5.9-10 ii libotf0 0.9.12-2 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-3 ii librsvg2-2 2.36.1-1 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2 ii libtiff4 3.9.6-9 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxft2 2.3.1-1 ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 emacs24 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs24 suggests: ii emacs24-common-non-dfsg 24.2+1-1 -- no debconf information
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