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25.0.50; apropos-library on libraries using cl-def{generic,method} fails

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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
To: 21422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 25.0.50; apropos-library on libraries using
 cl-def{generic,method} fails
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:06:40 -0500

On 05/09/15 at 12:58am, Mark Oteiza wrote:
> 
> From emacs -Q:
> 
> M-x apropos-library RET cl-generic RET
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (cl-generic-generalizers (head eql)))
>   apropos-symbols-internal((cl--generic-typeof-generalizer cl--generic-typeof-types cl--generic-struct-generalizer cl--generic-struct-specializers cl--generic$
>   apropos-library("cl-generic")
>   funcall-interactively(apropos-library "cl-generic")
>   call-interactively(apropos-library record nil)
>   command-execute(apropos-library record)
>   execute-extended-command(nil "apropos-library" nil)
>   funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "apropos-library" nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>   command-execute(execute-extended-command)
> 
> I came across this because doing M-. on a function defined with
> cl-defgeneric and cl-defmethod doesn't go to the definition, just the
> top of the library, so apropos-library was my backup. I don't know if
> the xref behavior should be a separate report.

cl-generic is used pretty widely, and apropos-library fails on libraries
using it. Could this be marked to be fixed before release?

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