On Wednesday,  3 Jan 2018 at 10:16, Gijs Hillenius wrote:

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> I'm using Emacs25 and Emacs-Snapshot on Debian. My emacs init loads
> 'Trivial Cite' (TC), and I do *not* experience this issue.

Thanks for this.

> TC is in Debian's emacs-goodies-el. Perhaps a comparison of TC and the
> Emacs efault will turn up a clue.

But interestingly enough, emacs-goodies-el started failing on
installation (via apt) with more recent emacs snapshots.  Trying just
now gives me lots of warnings but more importantly some errors:

filladapt.el:79:1:Error: Loading ‘nil’: old-style backquotes detected!
framepop.el:774:1:Error: Loading ‘nil’: old-style backquotes detected!
highlight-current-line.el:188:1:Error: Loading ‘nil’: old-style backquotes detected!
xrdb-mode.el:179:1:Error: Loading ‘nil’: old-style backquotes detected!

This is with emacs snapshot version 2:20171231 on buster.

The same package compiles fine with emacs25 however.
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, org 9.1.6