GNU bug report logs - #37837
[PATCH] Make sb-image.el obsolete

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 37837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 37837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37837: [PATCH] Make sb-image.el obsolete
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:57:29 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> I'm not aware of any general requirement to maintain backwards
> compatibility with ancient Emacs versions on master.  For example, we
> have dropped all compatibility function and variable aliases.

We routinely drop support for old versions of Emacs from the .el files
in Emacs -- there's no point in carrying around dead weight.

So I think the patch looks good to me.

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