Subject: Re: bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:39:14 +0200

On 12/21/2014 10:33 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

> It misleads.  There is no need for such a "warning" - nothing to
> warn users about, since the argument is optional.  It serves
> no useful purpose.

While the argument is still optional now, it won't be, at some point in 
the future. And there's a good reason to require this argument: people 
should annotate each obsoletion with the version when it happened.

That change was made 5 years ago; let it go.