Subject: bug#27804: 26.0.50; Emacs backgrounds itself during package-list-packages on WSL

From: Josh Howard <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:59:38 +0000

> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 7:19 AM
>
>> From: Angelo Graziosi <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:49:10 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > Definitely not an Emacs problem.
>> 
>> How, then, do you explain that Emacs 24.3, both installed with WSL 
>> package manager (apt) and rebuilding it from source (see also this 
>> thread [1]), work just fine?
>
> It doesn't seem to be the case, as at least one of the participants in
> the discussion of that issue said the problem happened in Emacs 24 as
> well.
>
> And even if some change in Emacs exposed that bug, it doesn't yet mean
> the bug is in Emacs.

Correct, this is reproducible (for me) on both emacs24 and emacs26. I did not try emacs25.