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dired-chmod-program is a revenant

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Message #14 received at 50190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 50190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#50190: dired-chmod-program is a revenant
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:13:06 +0200

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

>>> The defcustom dired-chmod-program is no longer used by dired or any
>>> derivative. It is now used only by ange-ftp-process-file.
>>>
>>> I suggest marking dired-chmod-program as obsolete (or removing it),
>>> and changing ange-ftp-process-file's (or (bound-and-true-p
>>> dired-chmod-program) "chmod") to simply "chmod".
>>
>> Obsoleting it sounds like a good idea to me.  Perhaps Michael has some
>> comments on the ange-ftp change; added to the CCs.
>
> I don't know whether somebody uses dired-chmod-program in
> ange-ftp. Obsoleting it would be OK; let's see who protests.

OK; I've now made the variable obsolete (and removed the one usage).  I
did not remove the comments in wdired about it, since Paul's patch in the
other bug report does that.

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