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29.0.50; Obsolete netrc.el

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Message #8 received at 56976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 56976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#56976: 29.0.50; Obsolete netrc.el
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:23:07 +0200

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

> It'd be nice to obsolete netrc.el, since the functionality is duplicated
> by auth-source, and is broken for non-ASCII chars etc.
>
> There's only one in-tree usage of netrc-parse, and that's in
> tramp-parse-netrc.  This could be changed to use
> `auth-source-netrc-parse' instead, but in earlier versions of that
> function, it'd return nil when not specifying the host/user/ports, which
> made it not quite compatible.  I've now changed that, but I'm not sure
> what the compat situation is here (i.e., if this Tramp has to work in
> older Emacs versions or not).

(Adding Michael to the CCs.)

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