GNU bug report logs - #49786
28.0.50; [PATCH] package-install shouldn't change default-directory

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Message #11 received at 49786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 49786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ioannis Kappas <ioannis.kappas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#49786: 28.0.50; [PATCH] package-install shouldn't change
 default-directory
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:41:15 -0400

EZ> The 'mac' encoding is documented in the ELisp manual.  Please don't remove
EZ> its testing here.

Ah, so it does.  I'm rather content to let the OS9 diehards stew in
their own obsolescence.  There's no telling what else doesn't work on an OS
that was last released in the twentieth century.  But it's impossible to
disabuse the maintainer of the maintainer ethos: "preservation above-all" [1].

[1] Even if the thing being preserved (a test for the 'mac encoding) is but one week old.

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