Bug#1139706: elpa-with-editor: Using emacs as $EDITOR brings up "definition is void" error

Hi Ron,

Ron Murray <[email protected]> writes:

> Package: elpa-with-editor
> Version: 3.5.1-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I use emacs as $EDITOR, and ran tripwire on my system this
> morning. When tripwire finished, emacs came up with a "definition is
> void" error.
>
> I'd had a similar problem yesterday (see bug #1139671), so I knew
> what to look for. I found an empty "with-editor.elc" file in
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/with-editor-3.5.1, so I renamed it to
> ".bad", and that fixed the problem.
>

Thanks for reporting the issue and finding the cause. An empty .elc can
mean that the byte compilation of the file failed. I don't see this on
my system though. Can you show the content of the install log
(/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/Install.log.gz) which may have some
clue of what could have gone wrong?

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: forky/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 7.0.12.khufu (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages elpa-with-editor depends on:
> ii  dh-elpa-helper              2.1.9
> ii  elpa-compat                 31.0.0.1+dfsg-1
> ii  elpa-cond-let               1.1.2-1
> ii  emacs-common [elpa-compat]  1:30.2+1-3
> ii  emacsen-common              3.0.8
>
> elpa-with-editor recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages elpa-with-editor suggests:
> pn  elpa-vterm  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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