GNU bug report logs - #17011
24.3.50; Random Emacs crash when opening image/pdf files from magit.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <hi <at> yagnesh.org>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:11:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo, patch

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #21 received at 17011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: hi <at> yagnesh.org, 17011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17011: 24.3.50;
 Random Emacs crash when opening image/pdf files from magit.
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:53:51 +0200

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:01:39 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: hi <at> yagnesh.org, 17011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That's a backward-incompatible change
> 
> I suppose you're right that backwards compatibility trumps other 
> concerns at this stage in the release process.  I installed a patch to 
> do that as emacs-24 bzr 116866.

Thanks.

> I left in a FIXME comment, though, as the old behavior is obviously
> problematic.

Let's discuss this on emacs-devel.
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