Subject: bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:57:43 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:11:58 -0500
> 
> It seems clear to me that the file was deleted (rather than obsoleted)
> based on a misunderstanding about whether it had been in a release.
> 
> I find it weird that this is just being ignored, but NMP.

It's IMO very unfair to represent what we did about this (see
bug#27445) as "ignoring".  There's a limit to what we can do against
strong opinions of a package maintainer.