Package: vm Version: 8.2.0b-3 Severity: important Tags: help To reproduce install xemacs21 and vm in a sid chroot xemacs21 -q -f vm
Expected output Display of an empty inbox, or something Actual output Minibuffer error message: Invalid byte code: "invalid opcode 0 in instruction stream" I note that xemacs21 comes with a vm.el. I don't know the relationship between that and the vm package. The vm package seems to work with `emacs'. For now I am going to remove xemacs21 from the passlist of supported emacsen flavours. The result will be that xemacs21 users will get the vm which comes with xemacs21, rather than an error. So after I do that, to reproduce the bug it will be necessary to revert that commit. I will write to this bug again when I have its commitid etc. Apologies for the inconvenience. I would appreciate help from an xemacs21 expert on what this might mean. Note that the way vm deals with the emacsen-common stuff is rather odd. The upstream build system is not just .el files - it contains other stuff. So what the Debian package does is ship (enough of) the upstream build system into /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm.in and run it during emacsen-common install and remove. See the files debian/vm.emacsen-install debian/vm.emacsen-remove in the source package. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <[email protected]> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
