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29.0.50; Deleting libraries obsolete since Emacs 24

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 50999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#50999: 29.0.50; Deleting libraries obsolete since Emacs 24
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:36:17 +0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I don't think that's feasible -- if something breaks, then people will
> be reporting bugs about those things.  Not byte-compiling them would
> just be more work in the long run, because we'd be discovering the
> issues later, and not when somebody does a change that requires the
> other files to change.

How about telling people to not report bugs in those packages?  For
instance, a disclaimer stating "this is obsolete and unsupported -- use
at your own risk".

Perhaps report-emacs-bug could detect that case, and warn the user.

Thanks.

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