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Fix emacsbug.el errors clearly flagged by the byte-compiler. * lisp/mail/emacsbug.el (report-emacs-bug-create-existing-bugs-buffer): Replace undefined CL functions.
author Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
date Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:15:59 -0800
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