Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Re: vm breakage with Emacs 29"):
> On 2 August 2023 at 13:17, Ian Jackson wrote:
> | Hi. Since you were helpful with #1039105 "Fails to start with Emacs
> | 28" I thought I would draw your attention to #1042889
> | "vm: autopkgtest fails against Emacs 29.1" [0]
> |
> | I won't have time to look at this until next week, probably. Any help
> | or background research would be greatly appreciated. We need to fix
> | this to avoid vm getting autoremoved.
> |
> | I did have a quick look at the test log [1] and the failure looks
> | genuine. I suggest we do any further diagnosis in the bug.
>
> The band-aid I found and submitted for #1039105 (ie per Fedora's tracker,
> "just do not byte compile") seems apt here, no? I still do not really read
> (or, for that matter, write) elisp but it seems to complain about byte code.
>
> So I would try two things:
> - turn off elisp byte compilation as in #1039105
The patch from #1039105 is still in the package.
Do we need to add to a list of files in it, or something, do you
think ? Maybe it would be best to disable byte compilation
completely.
One thing that would be useful would be for someone to try out emacs
and vm in a sid chroot; that would confirm that this isn't a spurious
test failure (or confirm that it is).
Thanks,
Ian.
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