[arch-general] emacs-color-theme: please use a snapshot

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:11 AM, XeCycle <xecycle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hope I'm not disturbing~  But I don't know whether this worth a bug
> report.
>
> The package `emacs-color-theme' uses the stable release, released in
> 2006.  In 2007, there's a commit fixing a bug (for me, the bug causes
> conflict with Gnus), but the upstream didn't release a new version since
> then.  So I would suggest on using a snapshot version --- I fixed that
> bug myself.
>
> Following is more about that bug and how I fixed it:
>
> Function `replace-in-string' is provided in XEmacs but not GNU Emacs, so
> the author of color-theme defined his own.  Yes, he checks whether the
> function exists.  Gnus also defined one, but the name is
> `mm-replace-in-string'.  Gnus checks whether `replace-in-string' is
> present, and if it does, the `mm-' is just an alias to that.
>
> All right, Eh?  But the author of color-theme defined the function
> different from XEmacs did.  So Gnus was confused, then it complained
> about something like "wrong number of arguments" when using it --- for
> example, when EasyPG is trying to verify a PGP/MIME signature.
>
> I fixed that by renaming the defun in color-theme.el to
> `color-theme-replace-in-string', by adding a sed line in the build()
> function before the compilation.
>

You should submit a bug report to make sure the maintainer is aware of this.

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> Carl Lei (XeCycle)
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