Dear Maintainer,

Using `emacs -batch` is noisy, which means that it is easier to miss warnings and errors in `emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile`

`emacs -batch` on my system produces:

```
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/preview-latex.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading debian-ispell...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50festival.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-common.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/latex-cjk-common/cjk-enc.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-thai.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latexmk.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mailutils-mh.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mu4e.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50texlive-lang-english.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/60hyperspec.el (source)...
```

I would expect no output, which is what I get using Emacs on other systems.

Recommended fix: editing function `debian-run-directories` in /usr/share/emacsen-common/debian-startup.el

Change `(load file nil)` to `(load file nil t)`.

This will set the `nomessage` argument for function `load` and therefore silence these messages.

This bug still persists, and the attached patch should fix it while
still printing informative messages in interactive mode.

I might raise the severity to "serious" at some point since the stray
output renders GNU Emacs unsuitable as a script interpreter, thus
breaking it.

Regards.

I would prefer `(load file nil t)` to `(load file nil noninteractive)`
as even in interactive mode, extra output likes this makes it more
difficult to notice actual warnings or errors that might need attention.

But either way would be a big improvement.

Michael

1. plus-one-and-bump

2. FWIW, I opened bug/RFE #1099027 today to cover the same issue
   in dictionaries-common.

   @Michael, I guess something similar probably would be
   necessary for file (from your example output)
   /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-common.el loading
   /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/latex-cjk-common/cjk-enc.el.

3. If the maintainers of emacsen-common agree that the load
   messages should be better switched off, probably a notice in

     /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz

   would help other package maintainers.  Like this:

   10) Use of load in site-start.d and dependent files

       If a plain (load "some-package") is actually required for
       one reason or other, you should use in fact something
       along the lines of

         (load "some-package" nil t)

       That helps keeping the message noise down, in particular
       during Emacs batch runs.  See als bug #979982.  Should a
       user really need the load messages, most notably for
       debugging purposes, she can set force-load-messages to a
       non-nil value in her early initialization file.