Subject: bug#17530: closed (Re: bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:30:02 +0000

Your bug report

#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:29:28 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> The defcustom type is (repeat symbol), but the doc string says that it
> should be a repetition of entries like this:
>
> 1. The symbol `all' (only).
> 2. List (NAME VERSION), where NAME is a symbol and VERSION is one of
>    these: t, a string, or nil.
>
> So it is currently effectively impossible to customize this option.

This has subsequently been fixed:

commit 9be8a2fb41043b4d4734a67f155d6923df10671b
Author: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date:   Thu Jan 28 08:58:43 2016 -0800

    * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-load-list): Improve :type.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Subject: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 09:26:45 -0700 (PDT)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The defcustom type is (repeat symbol), but the doc string says that it
should be a repetition of entries like this:

1. The symbol `all' (only).
2. List (NAME VERSION), where NAME is a symbol and VERSION is one of
   these: t, a string, or nil.

So it is currently effectively impossible to customize this option.

In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-04-29 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 117031 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
 LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
 -Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''