[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#847040: evil-el: test suite fails under emacs25

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2016-12-04 18:59] Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>
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> Source: evil-el
> Version: 1.2.12-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> evil-el seems to be incompatible with emacs25.  The test suite fails:
>
>     Ran 181 tests, 171 results as expected, 10 unexpected (2016-12-04 18:51:14-0700)
>
>     10 unexpected results:
>        FAILED  evil-test-insert-repeat-info
>        FAILED  evil-test-normal-repeat-info-char-command
>        FAILED  evil-test-normal-repeat-info-simple-command
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat-append
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat-append-line
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat-insert
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat-insert-line
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat-open-above
>        FAILED  evil-test-repeat-open-below
>
> While this problem does cause an FTBFS, I'm filing a separate bug from
> #829299 because that one concerns buildd tty issues rather than
> emacs24/emacs25 compatibility.
>
> This will be RC if and when emacs24 is RM'd, which we are hoping to do
> soon.

Thank you for report.

[Added upstream maintainer into CC: frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de]

I just installed emacs25 and now my /usr/bin/emacs points to
/usr/bin/emacs25-nox, and I can confirm, that `make test' do fail. Dear
upstream maintainer, can you please take a look?

[Back to Debian affairs.]

Right now it seems impossible to uninstall emacs24 without breaking a
lot of things:

	; sudo apt-get purge emacs24-nox emacs24-lucid emacs24
        [... reflowed a bit ...]
	The following packages will be REMOVED:
	  dash-el* dh-elpa* elpa-aggressive-indent*
	  elpa-elisp-slime-nav* elpa-epl* elpa-evil* elpa-evil-leader*
	  elpa-evil-paredit* elpa-flycheck* elpa-git-commit*
	  elpa-goto-chg* elpa-magit* elpa-magit-popup* elpa-paredit*
	  elpa-pkg-info* elpa-undo-tree* elpa-with-editor* emacs*
	  emacs24-nox* haskell-mode*
        [...]
	Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C

But I just switched to emacs25 and everything is fine, including
evil. So whatever issues test suite discovers, they do not disrupt my
emacs/evil workflow. So, if we would fail to fix test suite till emacs25
becomes the only emacs, I would comment-out tests.  Unprincipled -- yes,
but RM would be much greater problem. At least for me.

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