GNU bug report logs - #13110
24.1; Problem chaining archive-mode and tar-mode.

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Message #11 received at 13110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mihir <mihir.cs.iitd <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13110: 24.1; Problem chaining archive-mode and tar-mode.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 10:02:19 +0200

Mihir <mihir.cs.iitd <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I was editing a debian binary package (.deb). Finding the file opens it
> in archive-mode, then finding the file 'data.tar.gz' opens it in
> tar-mode. I proceeded to edit the file, which produced a warning message
> reminding me to go and save the buffer for 'data.tar.gz'. However, when
> I attempted to save the buffer for 'data.tar.gz', I got an error message
> saying, "Symbol's value as variable is void: archive-ar-write-file-member".

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

I tried reproducing this in Emacs 28, but was unable to.  Instead I got
various variations on

---
archive-*-write-file-member: Updating was unsuccessful (1)
---

which seems to be the correct response, since Emacs doesn't support
editing ar (i.e., .deb) files.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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