From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52351: Is bad-packages-alist still relevant? Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 07:19:46 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87ee6ky79w.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27315"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Glenn Morris , 52351@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 19 16:20:36 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 1myxzG-0006wo-RX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47006 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myxzE-0003MA-W5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myxyl-0003Lz-3o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myxyk-0007c3-Rl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myxyk-0005qv-Ig for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:20:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52351 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 52351-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52351.163992719922484 (code B ref 52351); Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52351) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Dec 2021 15:19:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47728 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myxyh-0005qa-5F for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pg1-f175.google.com ([209.85.215.175]:45005) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myxyc-0005q6-5t for 52351@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:19:54 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pg1-f175.google.com with SMTP id m15so7041004pgu.11 for <52351@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 07:19:54 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=p5c70sA6a89/UHY3AlRWm2+QKG7k8K1e8oSZdRcKmuw=; b=kWsmcfXGhFhEPgRXI+yj7i/JbYtEVBoREswfifB8cOuYa7k9HyEdEU830xMy0AVBuL CYJcCshZ2O+3BqDE0hOuA7yknpX9R8EE+m17Dzb0IfdSbe0mHlO7KS3y22tww21lonln MKS3vx48owrAb9L4N9GgXYnkpncihsLcVYG6e287nwnhyC8/1xwLxOcROgI+lpdTQn1e WlEWeHcrjIVra2r+olgqyQfUljuC93OTM7jZWEgFVcIk7cBKLe5+rg9fsOgTSClDV6h/ iIo+zHlsN74nteicD8c8R2tLBByqnN6gPdzXVtSI09KRtCuXWrLWHOpm8t7C4jbzOj4I BpRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM53127TwShSkQKr+5iWkbZ5nwCMF4HNVRPr2rAHo6I+Pq5INtkP+E AX7RgfAy53XxRVQ4/HrbsXXO5orsLU7BW03+yy0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzfx5/nxxuLZy7TMErfnUC/RGJB13c/1BWlai8r5kHap9cHx4DhMrG0fYyBgkTGxfw2h77w/zmxgCPNkGFIgOo= X-Received: by 2002:a63:ff14:: with SMTP id k20mr10986731pgi.325.1639927187405; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 07:19:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 07:19:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87ee6ky79w.fsf@gnus.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:222698 Archived-At: close 52351 29.1 thanks Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Stefan Kangas writes: > >> IOW, not a bad idea at the time, but the passing of time has meant that >> it's hard to see the relevance of the feature. > > Yeah, it doesn't seem very useful to me. We should probably obsolete > it, though, instead of removing it outright, I guess? (Even if it's a > defconst.) No further comments within 9 days, so I have now made it obsolete on master (commit 8f82a83cae).