Subject: Re: 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 22:51:39 +0300

> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 19:38:30 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
> cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> > My concern is about users who still have Emacs before March 2005.
> 
> I forgot to mention that snapshot.debian.org also contains a copy of all 
> earlier stable releases of Debian since ~1995.

Imagine the plight of a user who needs to discover all these places
just to have the sources available.