Package: elpa-xml-rpc Version: 1.6.12-2 Severity: serious Hi,
when upgrading emacs from 1:25.2+1-11 to 1:26.1+1-2, it hangs infinitely at "install/xml-rpc-1.6.12: byte-compiling for emacs". Relevant parts of an "ps auxwwwf" output: root 5644 0.0 0.0 2392 768 pts/4 S+ 00:54 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs-gtk.postinst configure 1:25.2+1-11 root 5647 0.0 0.0 19168 11604 pts/4 S+ 00:54 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs root 5893 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/4 Z+ 00:54 0:00 \_ [emacs-install] <defunct> root 6179 0.0 0.0 2392 772 pts/4 S+ 00:55 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elpa-xml-rpc emacs root 6182 0.0 0.0 2392 108 pts/4 S+ 00:55 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elpa-xml-rpc emacs root 6183 99.9 0.0 274740 41712 pts/4 Rl+ 00:55 18:39 \_ emacs -q -batch -l package --eval (add-to-list 'package-directory-list "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src") -f package-initialize -f batch-byte-compile xml-rpc-autoloads.el xml-rpc-pkg.el xml-rpc.el Please note the over 18 minutes of CPU time of process 6183. Please feel free to reassign this to emacs in case you think this is an issue with emacs 26.1 itself and not with this elpa package. P.S.: This looks very similar to https://bugs.debian.org/917050 against elpa-markdown-mode. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages elpa-xml-rpc depends on: ii emacsen-common 3.0.4 Versions of packages elpa-xml-rpc recommends: iu emacs 1:26.1+1-2 ih emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:26.1+1-2 elpa-xml-rpc suggests no packages. -- no debconf information