S Josefsson writes:

> Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there an official minimum emacs version required for ognus? As of
> > cancel-locks being added, my 20.3.1 seems not good enough:
> 
> The manual says Emacs 20.3 or XEmacs 20.4 or later, so if those
> doesn't work, it is a bug.

Oh. Oh yes. My bad.

> > While compiling the end of the data in file
> > [...]/emacs/ognus/lisp/canlock.el: ** the function
> > base64-encode-string is not known to be defined.
> >
> > So I can't send news...  Short of persuading the sysadmin to upgrade
> > emacs, which I know he'd put at the bottom of a large pile of jobs,
> > am I restricted to older gnusę?
> 
> No.  Does your emacs have `base64-encode-region'?  As a workaround put
> gnus/contrib in your load path.

Again, my bad (as they say these days).  I jumped to the wrong
conclusion about the above message.  It finds the base64 stuff just
fine.

Here's the backtrace of what happens when it fails