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30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable

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Message #17 received at 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Adam Porter <adam <at> alphapapa.net>
Cc: 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a
 generalized variable
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:58:20 +0300

> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:16:53 -0500
> Cc: 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Adam Porter <adam <at> alphapapa.net>
> 
> > I think it's too late to do this now, not without a very good
> > reason. Unless such a good reason emerges VSN, this will need to wait
> > till Emacs 31 at least.
> 
> That would mean years more of unnecessary compilation warnings' annoying
> users when they install packages that use this form.

Please also look at this from where I stand: if we keep adding
last-minute changes that no one tried for long enough time, we will
never start the Emacs 30 release cycle, because doing that with an
unstable master branch is a very bad idea, and delaying the branch is
the only way of knowing whether the master branch is okay after each
change.

So I must draw the line in the sand at some point (pun intended), and
I just did, a few weeks ago.

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