Revert Liblist to a working state

Recent work on Liblist has resulted in an endless stream of fixes and fixes upon those fixes and fixes upon fixes upon those fixes.

* The additional tests are testing garbage-in garbage out, not something useful.
* They are reporting spurious warnings to the end-users about said garbage
* I currently broken, and has been broken for other reasons before

I propose reverting to the latest state that was known to be working without issues, and not change things without discussing a bit more about what we're trying to achieve here.