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29.0.50; Obsolete netrc.el

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 56976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56976: 29.0.50; Obsolete netrc.el
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:08:04 +0200

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

>> I've now done this, and partially reverted previous change, because the
>> change in behaviour might break things.
>>
>> So I'll go ahead and change the Tramp code to use
>> `auth-source-netrc-parse-all', and leave the further adjustments to you?
>
> In general yes, but why the new alias? What's wrong with my proposal
> checking obsolescence of netrc-parse?

I decided against the alias, because my first change (to just make
missing/nil host etc return all entries) wasn't quite
backwards-compatible enough, so it wasn't a good idea in the first
place.

So a new function is needed in any case.

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