Re: Bug#905305: emacs-common: terrible mess

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> If you can tell what's going wrong, please consider filing bugs against
> the relevant add-on packages, or contacting #debian-emacsen or
> debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org.

Thanks.

Showed up the culprit was initz package (which I don't use since quite 
a while back, anyway).  Removing it:

# emacs -nw -q --debug-init
*Messages* buffer:
        run-hooks: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, initz
package initz, version 0.0.11+20030603cvs-17.2, remove:
        # apt-get --purge remove initz
        ERROR: initz is broken - called emacs-package-remove as a 
	       new-style add-on, but has no compat file.
# emacs -nw -q --debug-init
Error gone.

Ended up removing several packages (besides initz), for various 
reasons.

The only one I regret seeing go away is:

	/usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian