plain list spacing changed after moving to org 7.7/ELPA

[vincent douzal <vincent.douzal@teledetection.fr>]

Hello, 

I am experiencing a change in behaviour regarding plain lists
spacing, 

spontaneous behaviour (empty file) is
- this
- this
instead of
- that

- that

(and many other probably related effects, like that TAB inside
a list item does nothing at all in most cases, or need of
being more than two empty lines after the end of a list item for
M-RET to insert a headline),

since some time ago I switched from

Org-mode version 6.33f, installed over 
GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11
on raven, modified by Debian

to

Org-mode version 7.7
on the same unchanged system,
installed through ELPA from http://orgmode.org/pkg/daily/,
tarball org-20111107.tar, then org-20111206.tar, following 
the FAQ step by step.

(Incidentally, *there is something wrong with org-20111207.tar*,
it has been truncated.  It took me some time to figure out from the
code that M-x package-install-file "Can't read whole string" was
meant also for filenames *inside* the tar.)

All the compile process went well (I just recompiled
org-20111206.tar to include parts of the log, the previous time I
had apparently innocuous errors, now only warnings are left).

As expected, M-x  locate-library org
Library is file ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20111206/org.elc


I know *the culprit is org-blank-before-new-entry,* which yields,
with the minimal .emacs included:

org-blank-before-new-entry ---> nil

whereas with emacs -q (by what I return to Org version 6.33f) it
is the default:

org-blank-before-new-entry ---> ((heading . auto) (plain-list-item .
auto))

I could try to force that variable, but something must be going
wrong somewhere in the installation, and I cannot figure out how
to correct it the proper way.

Has anyone an idea how to pin down where the real problem is?

vincent



;------8<--------------------------
; Minimal .emacs [2011-12-07 13:59]
(blink-cursor-mode -1)
(tool-bar-mode 0)

(if (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode) (scroll-bar-mode -1))
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

(when
    (load
     (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el"))
  (package-initialize))

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
    (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

; Where I have various contrib org files, among others.
(setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/emacs/contrib/lisp" load-path))
; End .emacs



*Compile-log* extract
------8<---------------------------
ob-ref.el:69:1:Warning: defcustom for `org-babel-update-intermediate'
fails to specify containing group
In org-agenda-list:
org-agenda.el:3557:26:Warning: `org-agenda-ndays' is an obsolete
variable (as of Emacs 24.1); use `org-agenda-span' instead.

In org-agenda-goto-today:
org-agenda.el:6419:59:Warning: `org-agenda-ndays' is an obsolete
variable (as of Emacs 24.1); use `org-agenda-span' instead.

In org-agenda-reset-view:
org-agenda.el:6504:36:Warning: `org-agenda-ndays' is an obsolete
variable (as of Emacs 24.1); use `org-agenda-span' instead.