GNU bug report logs - #73609
29.1; use-package overwrites custom variables in byte-compiled files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 05:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com
To: John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 73609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73609: 29.1; use-package overwrites custom variables in byte-compiled files
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:49:30 +0000

> I think this one has to be “won’t fix”, indeed, with a note in the
> documentation about possible bad interactions between :custom settings and
> byte-compiled files…

Just to mention that a fix on the user side would be to always require use-package to force the loading of the theme before other user code is executed. Of course this defeats the purpose of lazy-loading use-package that byte compiling would normally offer.

An easy “fix” from the use-package side, with virtually zero side effects, would be to move the loading of the theme into a small module that the user can always require without loading all of use-package.
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