GNU bug report logs - #77626
31.0.50; Obsoleting, or possibly just deleting, vc-dav.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 04:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Fixed in version 31.1

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 77626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: wmperry <at> gnu.org, 77626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77626: 31.0.50;
 Obsoleting, or possibly just deleting, vc-dav.el
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:12:07 +0300
> Cc: wmperry <at> gnu.org
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:59:05 +0800
> 
> X-debbugs-cc: wmperry <at> gnu.org
> 
> vc-dav.el was installed unfinished in 2004 and no substantive work has
> been done on it since.  I would like to just delete it, given that there
> is no indication it ever actually worked, but we could also mark it as
> obsolete, instead.

We never delete anything without moving it to obsolete first.  I don't
see a reason to risk someone's breakage even in this case, since the
file as it is doesn't really do any harm if we move it to obsolete.




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