Bug#1092730: elpa-emacs-dashboard: Invokes obsolete package: “Symbol’s function definition is void: linum-mode”

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Package: elpa-emacs-dashboard
Version: 1.7.0-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The current Debian version of ‘elpa-emacs-dashboard’ invokes
‘linum-mode’ durin startup That package is obsolete as of Emacs 29.1.

This causes ‘dashboard-mode’ to raise an error:

    dashboard-mode: Symbol’s function definition is void: linum-mode

The solution is to change ‘dashboard-mode’ to stop using that obsolete
package that is no longer provided by default in Emacs.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages elpa-emacs-dashboard depends on:
ii  dh-elpa-helper         2.1.5
ii  elpa-page-break-lines  0.14-3
ii  emacsen-common         3.0.5

Versions of packages elpa-emacs-dashboard recommends:
ii  elpa-projectile     2.8.0-2
ii  emacs               1:29.4+1-4
ii  emacs-pgtk [emacs]  1:29.4+1-4

elpa-emacs-dashboard suggests no packages.

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