How do I debug `Package cl is deprecated`?

Question

While compiling an Elisp package from github, I get the

Warning: Package cl is deprecated

How do I find out what triggers it?

The specific file that triggers this is tiny and has no CL code.

I think there should be a way to turn the warning into an error and get the stack trace. Has anyone done this before?

Go find cl.el and rename it. This way you will get a trace back from the debugger. — tom, Jul 7, 2021 at 18:45

wasamasa · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-13 15:10:32Z

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Try the following in an Emacs session with the code in question loaded up:

(require 'loadhist)
(file-dependents (feature-file 'cl))

answered May 13, 2020 at 15:10

wasamasa

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if using 27.1 you can use (setq byte-complile-warnings '(not cl-functions)) accordingly to byte-complile-warnings documentation.
– Muihlinn
Sep 4, 2020 at 8:34
Hm, I tried that, in both my ~/.emacs and some system files (below /etc/emacs/site-start.d/, this being Debian/Ubuntu) but no luck. It also prevents emacs --daemon from working as the load hangs at the warning :-/
– Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dec 20, 2020 at 18:13
Use it interactively (like by pasting it into the scratch buffer and M-x eval-buffer), not in your init file.
– wasamasa
Dec 21, 2020 at 9:18
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I get the same warning when starting emacs, but no output from the code above... :-(
– AstroFloyd
Apr 4, 2021 at 7:50
Correction of the comment that shows how to suppress the warning:(setq byte-compile-warnings '((not cl-functions)))
– jobor
Jan 13, 2022 at 8:38

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