Subject: bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,)

From: Andrew Hyatt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:39:48 +0000

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Andrew Hyatt wrote:
>
> > Sorry this bug has been open for so long, in fact it has the rare
> > privelage of being open for so long the package you are having a problem
> > with (longlines-mode), no longer is part of emacs.
>
> It's in lisp/obsolete/.
> Eli thinks such things should still be fixed:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2016-01/msg00171.html

Is that a widespread opinion?  I disagree, FWIW.  One of the big purposes
of obsoleting things is to reduce the number of things that must be
maintained.