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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > 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.

I forgot to mention that snapshot.debian.org also contains a copy of all 
earlier stable releases of Debian since ~1995.  For Emacs, the oldest 
version in that archive is Emacs 19.29...