GNU bug report logs - #80051
bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

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From: Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:23:05 +0800
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I've recently got this error from package-build through Eask.
I believed the error came from:
https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs/commit/8158c4c43acd3a24a9c75c41fd054ca1edd09e30
.

Short discussed in package-build/#92
<https://github.com/melpa/package-build/issues/92>.


References:

- package-build: https://github.com/melpa/package-build
- Eask: https://github.com/emacs-eask/cli
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Message #8 received at 80051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>, Mattias Engdegård
 <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 80051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#80051: bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:23:02 +0000
Hello,

On Mon 22 Dec 2025 at 05:23pm +08, Jen-Chieh Shen wrote:

> I've recently got this error from package-build through Eask.
> I believed the error came from:
> https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs/commit/8158c4c43acd3a24a9c75c41fd054ca1edd09e30.
>
>
> Short discussed in package-build/#92.
>
> References:
>
> - package-build: https://github.com/melpa/package-build
> - Eask: https://github.com/emacs-eask/cli

Thanks.  Adding the author of the commit in question.

-- 
Sean Whitton




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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>, 80051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#80051: bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:57:46 +0100
>   - [1/1] Installing package-build (20251205.1541)... bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize

Oops, sorry about that. One should never trust the veracity of comments!

Correction pushed to master.





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From: Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 80051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: Re: bug#80051: bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:36:51 +0800
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Thank you for the quick response and quick fix! :D

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM Mattias Engdegård <
mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> >   - [1/1] Installing package-build (20251205.1541)... bad keyword in
> cus-start.el: :initialize
>
> Oops, sorry about that. One should never trust the veracity of comments!
>
> Correction pushed to master.
>
>
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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 80051-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: Re: bug#80051: bad keyword in cus-start.el: :initialize
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:24:52 +0100
23 dec. 2025 kl. 06.36 skrev Jen-Chieh Shen <jcs090218 <at> gmail.com>:

> Thank you for the quick response and quick fix! :D 

My pleasure (and duty, in this case).
Closing the bug.





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