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28.0.50; Confusing obsolete variable warnings in eieio-defclass-autoload

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 39169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#39169: 28.0.50; Confusing obsolete variable warnings in eieio-defclass-autoload
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:06:13 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Fine for me - in principle.  Note the word "confusing" in my bug report
> title.  How long do you think would a average user (not every programmer
> knows the internals of eieio) derive from the warning
>
>   Warning: `buffer-note' is an obsolete variable (as of 25.1); use
>   'buffer-note
>
> that emacs wants him to add a file local binding
> eieio-backward-compatibility -> nil?

Yeah, that's true.  Could we add that to the obsolete warning (instead
of the confusing "'buffer-note")?

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