Subject: bug#8802: cperl-write-tags function in cperl-mode.el hard coded tags-file-name

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:35:42 -0400

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> I'd rather that such a change be installed in Ilya's upstream
>> version first.  We already have plenty of merge problems because of
>> patches he rejected.

This always makes me wonder: what is the point of having a file in Emacs
where modifying it is not allowed (or at least, is strongly
discouraged)? Why not move it to GNU ELPA? It's not like there isn't
another perl mode in Emacs, which is actually used by default.
	
> Right. Would forwarding the report to Ilya and closing the bug report
> in debbugs be the right thing to do?

Debbugs has the ability to mark a report as forwarded, see
http://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer.html#forward

Such reports are not usually closed.