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Re: master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient conver


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:14:55 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> It's not the age of the code itself: it's code whose purpose is to
> convert `.newsrc` files generated by Gnus from 2004 or before :-)
> I think it's safe to assume that such files have long ceased to exist or to
> be of any use.

Gentoo distributes ancient versions of Emacs in their repositories, and
contrived as this scenario is, it's not impossible that some perhaps all
too inquisitive amateur archaeologist should install and run such an
obsolete version of Gnus, only to succeed it with an update to Emacs 30.

But I digress.  That code isn't causing anyone harm by merely existing,
so why must it be removed?


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