Subject: bug#3408: bug#3210: face customization fails after set-face-attribute

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:52:07 -0800

Bug #3408 is a _regression_, and it has not been fixed.
A regression is certainly NOT `notabug'.

As I said on 2012-06-09:

> If you do not have the time now to fix a particular bug (a 
> regression, no less), then classify it as `wishlist'.
> If you do not want to fix a bug, ever, then classify it as
> `wont-fix'.
> 
> But please do not classify it for such reasons as `notabug'.  
> A bug is a bug.  It is not the same as intentional design.
> Emacs Dev made implementation changes in Emacs 23 that broke
> things.  If you will not fix them then `wont-fix' is the
> right category.
> 
> Or if you really claim that this is a design change, then be 
> clear to users: document it generally for Customize:
> 
>   In the case of faces, Customize is about repainting what's
>   there already.  It is not about customizing for the future.
>   The advantages of this exception for faces are...
> 
> And add that design change to the NEWS (for Emacs 23), as a 
> new "feature".