emacs org-mode not working with trixie?

[Joseph Brenner <tailorpaul@pm.me>]

On a recent install of Debian stable (version 13.2) I'm finding that emacs org-mode isn't working.   Which is to say if you open a *.org file the status bar indicates you're reading it with org-mode, but it looks like it's just interpreting it as a text file (big blocks of asterix that aren't folded into one).   

dpkg --list | egrep emacs

ii  emacs-bin-common                        1:30.1+1-6                           amd64        GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture dependent files

ii  emacs-common                            1:30.1+1-6                           all          GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture independent infrastructure

ii  emacs-el                                1:30.1+1-6                           all          GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files

ii  emacs-gtk                               1:30.1+1-6                           amd64        GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ GUI support)

ii  emacsen-common                          3.0.8                                all          Common facilities for all emacsen