color-theme-zenburn fails to byte-compile about zenburn-emacs

[listx]

I ran emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el and it failed as follows:

In toplevel form:
color-theme.el:50:1:Warning: cl package required at runtime

In color-theme-filter:
color-theme.el:486:43:Warning: assignment to free variable `name'
color-theme.el:488:48:Warning: reference to free variable `name'

In color-theme-install-variables:
color-theme.el:1207:10:Warning: `make-variable-frame-local' is an obsolete
    function (as of Emacs 22.2); explicitly check for a frame-parameter
    instead.

In end of data:
color-theme.el:1379:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be
    defined: color-theme-initialize, color-theme-face-attr-construct,
    set-face-property, color-theme-spec-compat
Wrote /home/l/prog/foreign/zenburn-emacs/color-theme.elc

In toplevel form:
color-theme-zenburn.el:98:4:Error: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

This is from 1ad1cba. Also, my Emacs is version 23.4.1, on Arch Linux.

[bbatsov]

With Emacs 24 officially out the old version of the theme is officially deprecated.