GNU bug report logs - #64797
30.0.50; advised alias -> "function is an alias for nil" in Help

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 03:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 64797-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 64797-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#64797: 30.0.50; advised alias -> "function is an alias for nil"
 in Help
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:11:48 +0200

23 juli 2023 kl. 05.13 skrev Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>:

> Seems that this regression in `help-fns--analyze-function' had been
> introduced by
> 
> d30fde6b0cc "Avoid infloops in help-fns--analyze-function with aliases"
> (Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> 2022-01-13)

Right. This is a regression in Emacs 29.
The fix is going to master for now. Whether and when to backport it is Eli's decision to make.

Thank you for localising and reporting it!
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