Re: Getting tired of "[Failure] The Package Smoketest"

Michael Sperber writes: > > What happens, I think, is that the defcustom gets run at autoload > > time, and that calls the set method, which calls > > `tempo-define-template', which isn't defined. > > > > I think this has to go. > > > > ;;;###autoload > > (defcustom jde-gen-hashcode-method-template > > The XEmacs 21.5 converts this `defcustom' into a `defvar', and thus the > tempo call never makes it into auto-autoloads.el. Isn't that a bad thing? If it isn't, why does this defwhatever need to be autoloaded at all?

> This change was made in changeset c4c8a36043be: > It doesn't seem to be in 21.4. Shouldn't it? Because 21.4 is the stable branch. Isn't the right question "should it?"