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Is bad-packages-alist still relevant?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 14:11:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 52351 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52351: Is bad-packages-alist still relevant?
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 07:19:46 -0800

close 52351 29.1
thanks

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

> Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:
>
>> IOW, not a bad idea at the time, but the passing of time has meant that
>> it's hard to see the relevance of the feature.
>
> Yeah, it doesn't seem very useful to me.  We should probably obsolete
> it, though, instead of removing it outright, I guess?  (Even if it's a
> defconst.)

No further comments within 9 days, so I have now made it obsolete on
master (commit 8f82a83cae).
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 148 days ago.

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