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27.0.91; Removed public functions from debugger.el

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 40728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40728: 27.0.91; Removed public functions from debugger.el
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:26:26 -0400

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

It seems like the patch here was never installed on the release branch.

Should it be?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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