GNU bug report logs - #12981
list-packages (void-function mailcap-parse-mailcaps) due to an old mailcap.el file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: frances frederic <frances_frederic <at> yahoo.fr>

Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 12981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: frances frederic <frances_frederic <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 12981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12981: list-packages (void-function mailcap-parse-mailcaps)
	due to an old mailcap.el file
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:45:14 -0500

frances frederic wrote:

> M-x locate-library  mailcap
>   - /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/attic/mailcap.el   (this one did not contains   mailcap-parse-mailcaps)

Thanks for the report. I'm not sure there is anything Emacs can do about
this. That file is not part of Emacs, it is part of "flim". In general,
you can break Emacs in arbitrary ways by installing arbitrary packages
at the head of load-path.

This issue was supposedly fixed in Debian flim a decade ago:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=110224
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 178 days ago.

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