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27.0.91; Removed public functions from debugger.el

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Message #17 received at 40728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>, 40728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40728: 27.0.91; Removed public functions from debugger.el
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:26:22 +0200

Am Di., 28. Apr. 2020 um 08:32 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
> > Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,  40728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:54:27 -0700
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > > Gemini, could you please write replacements for the functions you
> > > removed, or defalias them to some equivalent replacements?  I agree
> > > that public functions should not be removed, not without deprecating
> > > them first (if indeed they don't make sense).
> >
> > Here is a patch to bring those functions back.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Philipp, any comments?  If not, I'd like to install this on the
> release branch.

I haven't tested the patch in detail, but it looks fine, thanks.
I guess you want to use `define-obsolete-function-alias' instead of
`defalias' to mark the aliases as obsolete as well.
The commit message should contain a magic string such as "Don't merge
to master" to prevent reinstating the functions in Emacs 28.

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