bug#25228: 25.1; GNU emacs 25.1: custom-set-faces from init file ~/.emacs ignored

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:59:52 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: werner@suse.de, 25228@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  > Can you describe how that mechanism is triggered by the offending
>  > change?
> 
> Which one is "the offending change"?

The one whose commit caused this issue to arise, commit e65c307.

> If you reread the thread, you will
> see that there are controversial opinions.  Anyway, here we go.

Thanks, but that's not what I asked about.  I asked to describe how
the change after which this issue appeared causes it to appear.  IOW,
what does the current code do that wasn't done before e65c307, which
triggers this problem?