Subject: Re: bug#48404: 28.0.50; "Invalid version syntax" errors with read-extended-command

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 15:31:43 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> They don't really need to.  They decide "we think people with Emacs 25
>> shouldn't have this in their M-x TAX" and then put "26.1;Magit/1.2" in
>> the string.
>
> We need to talk to them to get their agreement, I think.  We cannot
> decide for them that this is what they should do.

I think we just have to establish a convention that external packages
could use.  Whether they then want to use it is up to them.  That is, if
they don't want to, then Emacs' behaviour with regards to obsoleted
commands won't change -- but if they want to see this new behaviour,
they'll need to reformat their obsoletion strings.

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