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23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jwiegley <at> gmail.com, hanche <at> math.ntnu.no, rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:42:29 +0200

> From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:42:58 +0000
> Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, rgm <at> gnu.org, hanche <at> math.ntnu.no, 1452 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> what I'm mostly trying to figure out is if there is *any* way to get
> code to be completely unmaintained.

I think removing it is the only way.

> We are, after all, trying to reduce the number of bugs (see the
> thread on 4k bugs) overall, and this is one way to do that. So the
> only way people would agree on right now, is if we remove the code
> entirely from emacs distribution. But I suspect that such a change
> would be rejected, even from obsolete packages, because someone
> might still be depending on them.

It depends on how long the package was obsolete, I guess.

We could define a policy, like a package is deleted after so-and-so
many months/years in obsolete/.

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