Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Breaking backward compatibility is about the worst crime package
  > maintainers could commit, in my opinion.

I mostly agree.  If we want to drop a feature, we should mark it
obsolete in version N and delete it in version N+1 or N+2.  Thus, if
we mark it obsolete in version 25, we could delete it in version 26.
We must never feel any hurry to do this.


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