Bug#583857: ess: Upgrade to 5.9.1-1 fails

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Carl-Fredrik,

Please keep the bug tracking system in the loop on bug report follow-up. I
now added the address for this report (583857 at bugs.debian.org) to the header,
and CC'ed the ess-debian maintainers.

On 4 June 2010 at 08:24, Carl-Fredrik Enell wrote:
| Hi
| Thanks for replying.
| 
| Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
|  > 
|  > Hi ess-debian,
|  > 
|  > This bug report came in yesterday. It desribes an issue with xemacs21.  I
| 
| Sorry, I seem to have a more general problem parsing text files,
| maybe related to inconsistent locales etc. It has appeared when
| sysklogd loads syslogd.conf and in several other (x)emacs-lisp
| files. So it is not really an xemacs issue after all. Seems related to

But we were able to replicate the bug on our end. There appears to be some
new-ish ESS code that xemacs can't yet chew, so a change may be needed.

Thanks, Dirk

| line breaks in configuration lines, so could it be related to bug
| #583908 and the fix of this?
| http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2010/May/1024043.html
| 
| 
|  > have to admit that I haven't had XEmacs installed in few years. Could one of
|  > you elisp chumps take a look and see if the bug report is valid, if there is
|  > a workaround etc pp?
| 
| 
| All the best
| Carl-Fredrik
| 
|  > | Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess/ess-arc-d.el...
|  > | Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess/ess-arc-d.elc
|  > | 
|  > | ...
|  > | 
|  > | While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess/ess-rutils.el:
|  > |   !! Invalid read syntax ((")"))
|  > | >>Error occurred processing ess-rutils.el: 
|  > | Invalid read syntax: ")"
|  > | 
| 
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