Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0717 - emacs bug fix update

Synopsis

emacs bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated emacs packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read email and news.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, Emacs incorrectly displayed Japanese documents using JIS X 0213:2004 (JIS2004) compliant fonts, even though other parts of the system prefer and use older fonts. This update lowers the priority of JIS X 0213:2004 to ensure the consistent use of fonts in the system. (BZ#612385)

  • Previously, the emacs packages required the aspell and hunspell spell checkers to be installed. Since the use of a spell checker is completely optional, this update removes aspell and hunspell from the list of dependencies, so that Emacs can now be installed without these packages. (BZ#613759)

All users of emacs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • emacs-23.1-21.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-21.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-21.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-21.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-21.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-21.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-21.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-21.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-21.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-21.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-21.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-21.el6.src.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-21.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-21.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-23.1-21.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-21.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-common-23.1-21.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-21.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-el-23.1-21.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-debuginfo-23.1-21.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-nox-23.1-21.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information