Package: vm Version: 8.2.0b-2.1 Severity: normal Loading vm-pcrisis on emacs 25 generates an error because an extra argument is passed to makeface. A more complete dscription, and fix, is available on launchpad. I tried the fix on my local copy and it cleared it up.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/1627814 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages vm depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 ii install-info 6.4.0.dfsg.1-2 ii make 4.1-9.1 ii ucf 3.0036 vm recommends no packages. Versions of packages vm suggests: ii exim4 4.89-3 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.89-3 pn stunnel <none> -- no debconf information