Make bad-packages-alist obsolete

* lisp/simple.el (bad-packages-alist, bad-package-check): Make
obsolete.  (Bug#52351)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 26c3ff575e2..b217aeb49ce 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -9790,24 +9790,7 @@ If it does not exist, create it and switch it to `messages-buffer-mode'."
 ;; versions together with bad values.  This is therefore not as
 ;; flexible as it could be.  See the thread:
 ;; https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00300.html
-(defconst bad-packages-alist
-  ;; Not sure exactly which semantic versions have problems.
-  ;; Definitely 2.0pre3, probably all 2.0pre's before this.
-  '((semantic semantic-version "\\`2\\.0pre[1-3]\\'"
-              "The version of `semantic' loaded does not work in Emacs 22.
-It can cause constant high CPU load.
-Upgrade to at least Semantic 2.0pre4 (distributed with CEDET 1.0pre4).")
-    ;; CUA-mode does not work with GNU Emacs version 22.1 and newer.
-    ;; Except for version 1.2, all of the 1.x and 2.x version of cua-mode
-    ;; provided the `CUA-mode' feature.  Since this is no longer true,
-    ;; we can warn the user if the `CUA-mode' feature is ever provided.
-    (CUA-mode t nil
-"CUA-mode is now part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution,
-so you can now enable CUA via the Options menu or by customizing `cua-mode'.
-
-You have loaded an older version of CUA-mode which does not work
-correctly with this version of Emacs.  You should remove the old
-version and use the one distributed with Emacs."))
+(defconst bad-packages-alist nil
   "Alist of packages known to cause problems in this version of Emacs.
 Each element has the form (PACKAGE SYMBOL REGEXP STRING).
 PACKAGE is either a regular expression to match file names, or a
@@ -9815,9 +9798,11 @@ symbol (a feature name), like for `with-eval-after-load'.
 SYMBOL is either the name of a string variable, or t.  Upon
 loading PACKAGE, if SYMBOL is t or matches REGEXP, display a
 warning using STRING as the message.")
+(make-obsolete-variable 'bad-packages-alist nil "29.1")
 
 (defun bad-package-check (package)
   "Run a check using the element from `bad-packages-alist' matching PACKAGE."
+  (declare (obsolete nil "29.1"))
   (condition-case nil
       (let* ((list (assoc package bad-packages-alist))
              (symbol (nth 1 list)))
@@ -9829,11 +9814,6 @@ warning using STRING as the message.")
              (display-warning package (nth 3 list) :warning)))
     (error nil)))
 
-(dolist (elem bad-packages-alist)
-  (let ((pkg (car elem)))
-    (with-eval-after-load pkg
-      (bad-package-check pkg))))
-
 
 ;;; Generic dispatcher commands