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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 56885@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#56885: Fix url-about.el in EWW or make it obsolete
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:09:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsiciddr.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmhg8jjt.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:06:14 +0800")

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> But why is such "power" a reason to remove the about:protocols URL? What
> harm is being done by keeping it there?

The harm is that we have to maintain it.  If it's useless (and this
patently is, since it hasn't worked probably in decades, and nobody has
complained, so nobody had a use for it), it should be obsoleted.

So I'm now doing that.






  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02 12:17 bug#56885: Fix url-about.el in EWW or make it obsolete Stefan Kangas
2022-08-02 12:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04  7:53 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04  8:05   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04  8:29     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04  8:33       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04  9:06         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04  9:09           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-08-04 10:23             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-04 14:21               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-05  0:54                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-05 11:54                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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