Subject: bug#48342: native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 22:11:38 +0300

> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 18:57:32 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Debian at least maintains a separate repository (snapshot.debian.org) in 
> which you can find each version of each package distributed by Debian 
> after March 2005, in both source and binary form.  Yes, that's quite a lot 
> of data: that archive currently occupies ~100 TB.

My concern is about users who still have Emacs before March 2005.