Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1042889: vm: autopkgtest fails against Emacs 29.1"): > vm's autopkgtest fails with Emacs 29.1, which latter is now in sid.
Hi, Sean, as you see we're looking into this. I have some questions for you as an Emacs expert: Is byte-compilation known to be sometimes broken? Is there a recommended approach to problems caused by byte-compilation ? We recently did an update to vm in Debian stable, to work around a critical problem with Emacs 28 (#1039105). The autopkgtest which is now failing is new - I introduced it to detect future bugs, which it seems to have done. The previous bug was related to byte-compilation and we "fixed" it by turning off byte-compilation for at least some of vm's files (in what I feel was rather an ad-hoc way, albeit an effective one). Or to put it another way, is it possible that this is a bug in emacs 29.1 and if so what is the best workaround ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.