GNU bug report logs - #1452
23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "1452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <1452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:53:23 +0000

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
Date: 5 January 2016 at 18:40:02

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM Glenn Morris wrote:
> >
> > It's in lisp/obsolete/.
> > Eli thinks such things should still be fixed:
>  
> 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.

There isn’t necessarily a contradiction between the two viewpoints. Obsoleting a feature implies it will disappear in the future, at which point maintenance will certainly stop. The question is more about how soon maintenance should stop.

– Harald
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