Package html2text is obsolete!

Question

I am getting this message during startup of my Emacs, recently (since the update to Emacs 26?). I could not track down where is package is loaded and did not find anything related to this message in the web. It is not really a problem but I would like to know why my Emacs loads an obsolete package.

It may be surprising, but it's far from unusual to use packages that didn't get the memo yet. Figuring this out is something you'll have to do yourself, by testing whether you get the same message with emacs -q / emacs -Q, then bisecting towards the offending part of your init / site file. — wasamasa, Jul 01 '18 at 10:03
I was hoping someone already did this ;-) Then I will see, when I find the time and track down the „problem“. — Martin Buchmann, Jul 01 '18 at 10:10
Sorry for posting this as an answer, but I am not allowed to post comments yet and this post was so relevant that asking a new question didn't feel any better than this and it might have never attracted the attention of Martin Buchmann... From Martin Buchmann's comments: > It was indeed an old version of mu4e. Making sure that the recent version is loaded everything is fine @Martin Buchmann: may I ask you how you did this? I am having the exact same issue, but it seems that I am using the most recent version of mu/mu4e (from May 31 as shown [here](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community — prosoitos, Jul 08 '18 at 21:38
@prosoitos I am using macports on macOS and there is a mu-devel port which works for me. I not sure which package you could use on your system. But you could a) wait until your system is updated or b) try to get the most recent commit using git. — Martin Buchmann, Jul 09 '18 at 04:28

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '18 at 17:08

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Add this to the top of your .emacs, you should get a backtrace when it loads:

(defun debug-on-load-obsolete (filename)
  (when (equal (car (last (split-string filename "[/\\]") 2))
               "obsolete")
    (debug)))
(add-to-list 'after-load-functions #'debug-on-load-obsolete)

answered Jul 01 '18 at 17:08

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That helped a lot! I could track down the loading to mu4e and will investigate it further. – Martin Buchmann Jul 01 '18 at 17:41
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It was indeed an old version of mu4e. Making sure that the recent version is loaded everything is fine. – Martin Buchmann Jul 06 '18 at 14:39
This causes my emacs-daemon to collaps – alper Aug 17 '20 at 19:51
@alper oh, I guess debug wouldn't run in daemon mode. Maybe replacing the (debug) call with (backtrace) would work? – npostavs Aug 18 '20 at 21:52
The error I was getting: https://gist.github.com/avatar-lavventura/47792d4e5316a0b530c9ef2be1060aca – alper Aug 19 '20 at 00:09
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@alper well that's enough to figure out where the obsolete message is coming from: the findr package is loading the obsolete cl package (it should switch to cl-lib). – npostavs Aug 19 '20 at 17:08

Package html2text is obsolete!

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