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Contovounesios" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:06:22 +0000 Message-ID: <874kix5k8h.fsf@tcd.ie> References: <5dblpawa8s.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <835zfiudxx.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh0suum5.fsf@gnus.org> <871re32bv3.fsf@gnus.org> <83a6sqakfc.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtwpvaar.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20583"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 39940@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 14:07:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l6CRc-0005DG-Mn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:07:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33300 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6CRb-0007HM-FZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6CRS-0007Gl-UW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6CRS-0002jg-Du for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l6CRS-0000eW-7S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:07:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Basil L. 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It was a surprise for me to discover the nil value on >> Windows. But those 5 lines aren't sacred to me, so if we decide to >> deprecate the variable and eventually remove the supporting code, I >> won't object. > > I have no strong opinion on the matter, but since there are no in-tree > usages (any more), and the variable seems rather awkward, I've now > marked it as obsolete. If somebody out-of-tree actually uses it, then > reverting the obsoletion would also be fine by me, but I guess we'll see > whether anybody pipes up. Would its value be of any use in report-emacs-bug? Thanks, -- Basil