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bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mod


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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