On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:39:44PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 8 décembre 2016 23:32 +1030, Ron <r...@debian.org> : > > > One is whatever it is that the third-party ggtags wrapper needs, which > > aiui is what Vincent and Punit are most annoyed about. But I don't > > use emacs, and ggtags isn't even in Debian - and they haven't even > > told me what error they see, let alone what operation(s) trigger it. > > > > Vincent just gave me the output of global's short --help, and said > > "look, there's new options" - but we don't even know if it's actually > > a 'missing' command line option that it fails on (or which one that > > might be), or something else entirely. My hunch is that one would > > probably be pretty trivial to fix - either in ggtags or global, or > > both - if someone who uses it engages with what I asked originally, > > to file a separate bug from the 'new upstream' one, detailing the > > actual problem, and is willing to test any proposed fixes even if > > they aren't up to actually submitting a patch for that themselves. > > I don't mind writing a patch if we know what actually needs patching. > > And for this particular case, you didn't asked for anything more. You > just said nothing.
This was the very simple question I asked, and your non-response to it: >> I am using gg-tags in Emacs and the current version of global in >> Debian just doesn't work with this mode. > > What changed incompatibly to make it not work? And what would need > patching to fix that? > > I'd really much rather see problems get fixed than layered under even > more problems. If someone familiar with Emacs has some details of > what doesn't work, and what needs to be done so that it will, that > sounds like a separate bug to be addressed to me. Some arguments seem to not exist in previous versions. I did not investigate more How much am I supposed to hound you when you give a non-answer? I've asked you again several times here, and each time you put in a bunch of work to trot out some new accusations, but do nothing to actually answer the question.
