GNU bug report logs - #14734
24.3.50; REGRESSION: defadvice broken wrt doc strings (C-h f)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:10:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Merged with 13581, 14070

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 14734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 14734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#14734: 24.3.50;
 REGRESSION: defadvice broken wrt doc strings (C-h f)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:19:07 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> And just why did something already implemented (and stable for years)
> need to be REimplemented "for backward compatibility"?  Why did adding
> something new and different and presumably better require ALSO
> reimplementing something that was already, by definition, backward
> compatible?

I had the same question - since reimplementing should have been a bit of
work.  But maintaining the reimplementation is probably much easier than
doing so for the old package, so I can understand this decision.


Michael.
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