Package: emacs23-nox Version: 23.2+1-7 Starting a no-X Emacs with $ emacs -q and then invoking M-x customize-group RET tramp RET results in an instant infinite loop.
I was able to reproduce this problem on two distinct hosts (one IA-32, running Squeeze, and the other is AMD64, only partially upgraded from Lenny.) The problem doesn't appear in 23.3+1-4 (Wheezy, Sid.) $ LC_ALL=C dpkg -l \ emacs23-nox emacs23-bin-common libc6 libdbus-1-3 libgpm2 libncurses5 > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii emacs23-bin-co 23.2+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture ii emacs23-nox 23.2+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor (without X support) ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squee simple interprocess messaging system ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal handling $ -- FSF associate member #7257
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