Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#1039105: Fails to start with Emacs 28"):
> After updating my main machine (and the only one running vm along and
> exim4, dovecot, spamassassin and whatnot) to Ubuntu 23.04 with its Emacs 28.2
> (in an upgrade from 22.10 with Emacs 27.*), I found that vm (which I have
> been using all those years, still with some hooks and key-binding you emailed
> to in the mid-1990s (!!)) would no longer start.
Thanks for the report. And thanks to the others for the further
information.
I can reproduce the problem and the suppression of byte compilation
does indeed fix it.
It's a bit funky to reproduce, because emacs likes to byte-compile
things when it's idle with the effect that naive "emacs --batch" runes
don't show the problem.
I'll do a stable update. But first I am going to upload to sid,
as per the stable release policy. And I'm adding a test, since I did
manage to get a reliable repro.
I confess I don't understand the upstream package very well.
Ian.
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