Subject: bug#55278: 29.0.50; OSM package

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 19:19:32 -0400

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  > No, it's implemented in json.c in the Emacs sources.  But to have that
  > function defined, you need to build Emacs with libjansson, which is an
  > optional dependency of Emacs.

That is strange.  If the function json-parse-string is defined in the
Emacs sources, why compile it only if something else is enabled?

Does OSM depend on anything about jansson other than json-parse-string?
What does jansson do?

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