Subject: bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:29:36 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:08:06 +0000
> 
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Is there any reason to keep linum.el around any longer, or could it be
> marked obsolete in favor of `display-line-numbers-mode'?

The only possible reason is that linum.el allows more freedom in
formatting the line numbers and their faces.  I don't know whether
this reason is serious enough to not obsolete linum.el.