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

From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 20:00:37 +0000

>>> 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.
>

As Dima said, the same would be true for the C sources.  And, for Debian 
at least, it's not that difficult: from 
https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/emacs you can easily find every binary 
and source file you might need.  I cannot imagine a system that would be 
significantly simpler.