Subject: bug#31339: 25.3.50; package-list-packages does not provide useful error when gnutls-cli is missing

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 16:00:21 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Does an end-user who does not compile Emacs themselves receive any
>> notification about avoiding tls.el?
>
> Hm...  It's in lisp/obsolete.  Does Emacs have a general method to warn
> about requiring files in that directory?

Yes.
But the comment you are replying to predates tls.el being in lisp/obsolete.