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From: | Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: | bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,) |
Date: | Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:53:23 +0000 |
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> Date: 5 January 2016 at 18:40:02 > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM Glenn Morris wrote: > > > > It's in lisp/obsolete/. > > Eli thinks such things should still be fixed: > > Is that a widespread opinion? I disagree, FWIW. One of the big purposes > of obsoleting things is to reduce the number of things that must be > maintained. There isn’t necessarily a contradiction between the two viewpoints. Obsoleting a feature implies it will disappear in the future, at which point maintenance will certainly stop. The question is more about how soon maintenance should stop. – Harald
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