Package: emacs Version: 1:29.1+1-2 Severity: normal Dear maintainer,
This morning, I performed the following upgrade: [UPGRADE] emacs:amd64 1:28.2+1-16 -> 1:29.1+1-2 [UPGRADE] emacs-bin-common:amd64 1:28.2+1-16 -> 1:29.1+1-2 [UPGRADE] emacs-common:amd64 1:28.2+1-16 -> 1:29.1+1-2 [UPGRADE] emacs-common-non-dfsg:amd64 1:28.2+1-2 -> 1:29.1+1-1 [UPGRADE] emacs-el:amd64 1:28.2+1-16 -> 1:29.1+1-2 [UPGRADE] emacs-gtk:amd64 1:28.2+1-16 -> 1:29.1+1-2 and rebooted because the kernel was also upgraded at the same time. Since then, Gnus (the version shipped with Emacs) has become unusable for me because every time I hit RET in the *Summary* buffer in order to read a message, I get the following error: gnus-configure-frame: Symbol’s value as variable is void: gnus-carpal Redoing RET after `toggle-debug-on-error' yields the following backtrace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable gnus-carpal) (if gnus-carpal '(summary-carpal 4)) gnus-configure-frame((cond (gnus-use-trees '(vertical 1.0 (article 1.0) (summary 0.25 point) (tree 0.25))) (t '(vertical 1.0 (article 1.0) (summary 0.25 point) (if gnus-carpal '(summary-carpal 4)))))) gnus-configure-windows(article) gnus-summary-scroll-up(1) funcall-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up 1) command-execute(gnus-summary-scroll-up) Surprisingly, clicking on the gnus-configure-frame “button” in the backtrace shows (defun gnus-configure-frame ...) in /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.el.gz with *different code*: there are a few (cond ...) forms but none that starts as (cond (gnus-use-trees...). $ ls -l /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.elc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11128 Aug 1 20:24 /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.elc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5006 Jul 30 17:32 /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.el.gz $ sha512sum /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.el.gz 2fd828896c493913dd63586d39d559df679cda673c154ec5bbf421ff5ddc465815d830495c4aefaad5d306d0b4792bbd1b23754830a8cee83591006fe1ea6ceb /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/gnus/gnus-win.el.gz According to `C-h N', the `gnus-carpal' variable has been obsolete since Emacs 24 and was removed in Emacs 29.1. If I evaluate (setq gnus-carpal nil) in the *scratch* buffer, the problem doesn't happen anymore — until Emacs is restarted, of course. I tried 'aptitude reinstall emacs-el emacs-common' but this didn't change anything to the problem. Thanks for your work and help! Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT) 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 emacs depends on: ii emacs-gtk 1:29.1+1-2 emacs recommends no packages. emacs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
