Subject: bug#44598: [PATCH] Do not show obsolete options in customize

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:43:09 +0200

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:11:07 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > From 66221f1d0f7ee4f2af0d6c65fe956cce711b48e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 19:44:20 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Do not show obsolete options in customize
> >
> > * lisp/cus-edit.el (custom-variable-obsolete): Delete face.
> 
> Perhaps it should be marked obsolete first?

You mean, literally an obsolete face?  Or did you mean a new variable
that would allow displaying the obsolete option as we do today?  For
the latter, it might make sense, as a "fire escape" for people who
want the old behavior.  For the former, perhaps we shouldn't remove
the face at all, see my other mail.