Subject: Re: bug#59017: 28.2; Searching using nnir stopped
From: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
To: Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:47:20 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 11/06/22 09:03 AM, Waleed Yousef wrote:
> Great; thanks so much.
>
> On a side note, this means that I have always to keep reading the release update. This is a lot of time waste. Why there is no backward compatibility?

nnir -> gnus-search was quite a major change, and it would have been
impractical to maintain perfect backward compatibility (not to mention
that would prevent you from using some of gnus-search's new features).
You should have been seeing an obsolete variable warning about this on
every Emacs start -- that's supposed to be your clue.