GNU bug report logs - #5190
23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:25:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 5190-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: tcaswell <tcaswell <at> gmail.com>
To: 5190-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not 
	provided
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:37:12 -0800 (PST)

On Dec 12 2009, 3:10 pm, Chong Yidong <c...@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> > > Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
> > > newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
> > > 'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.
>
> > > Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?
>
> > Quite so.  I did this:
>
> > ~$ cd install/cvs/emacs/
> > ~$ make distclean
> > ~$ cvs update -dP
> > ~$ ./configure
> > ~$ make bootstrap
>
> > from the CVS repo.
>
> And what is on line 404 of lisp/net/newsticker.el?  It should be
>
> (require 'newst-ticker)
>
> Maybe you somehow got sticky tags on your copy; try `cvs up -A' and see
> if that clears it up.

I had the same problem.  It seemed to be that the *.elc files were not
properly removed/rebuilt and still using the old version. deleting all
of the existing .elc files by running

~$ find ./ -iname "*.elc" -exec rm \{\} \;

fixed the problem for me.
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