Hi, sorry but I forgot one important thing, the /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list I provided are used to install the testing package of emacs21-common. To make synaptic crashing we need, once emacs from testing has been installed, to remove the testing from the sources.list. Then relaunch synaptic and select the emacs21-common package and go to force version to have the crash. Sorry for this important omission. Have a great day.
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