diff -Nru emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/changelog emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/changelog	2019-01-15 20:52:21.000000000 +0000
+++ emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/changelog	2019-02-10 19:51:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+emacspeak (49.0+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add dont-break-on-vm-cruft.patch to avoid installation failure
+    (Closes: #921883)
+
+ -- Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:51:25 +0100
+
 emacspeak (49.0+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Paul Gevers ]
diff -Nru emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-break-on-vm-cruft.patch emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-break-on-vm-cruft.patch
--- emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-break-on-vm-cruft.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-break-on-vm-cruft.patch	2019-02-10 19:51:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Description: Don't trip over cruft left by vm
+ Somewhere before vm 8.2.0b-5, that package didn't clean up properly after
+ itself, causing emacspeak to fail during byte compiling. Avoid the failure.
+Authors: hartmans and bremner on IRC
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/921883
+Index: emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-vm.el
+===================================================================
+--- emacspeak.orig/lisp/emacspeak-vm.el
++++ emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-vm.el
+@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
+ ;;{{{ requires
+ (cl-declaim  (optimize  (safety 0) (speed 3)))
+ (require 'emacspeak-preamble)
+-(require  'vm () 'no-error)
++(with-demoted-errors "Error loading VM: %s" (require 'vm () 'no-error))
+ (require 'browse-url)
+ ;;}}}
+ ;;{{{ Forward Decls:
diff -Nru emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series
--- emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series	2019-01-15 20:52:21.000000000 +0000
+++ emacspeak-49.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series	2019-02-10 19:51:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 use-tclsh-as-interpreter-for-ssh-espeak.patch
 no-default-load-file-for-clojure
 0001-Fix-non-advised-functions-not-to-use-ems-interactive.patch
+dont-break-on-vm-cruft.patch