bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

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Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Given the above, how about just obsoleting url-ns.el?  This file
> handles Netscape configuration files, and there should be no problem
> communicating the irrelevancy of that.

Patch attached.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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From 6a5d417f6895abcbf61b8626ba577b06ba02cb8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:20:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Move url-ns.el to obsolete/

* lisp/url/url-ns.el: Move from here...
* lisp/obsolete/url-ns.el: ...to here.  (Bug#19822)
---
 etc/NEWS                         | 5 +++++
 lisp/{url => obsolete}/url-ns.el | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
 rename lisp/{url => obsolete}/url-ns.el (96%)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9a9e25bea9..cf4a440da6 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2679,6 +2679,11 @@ directories if you ask it for a "file:///dir" URL.  Since this is a
 low-level library, such decisions (if they are to be made at all) are
 left to higher-level functions.
 
+---
+** The url-ns.el library is now marked obsolete.
+This library is used to open configuration files for the long defunct
+web browser Netscape, and is no longer relevant.
+
 ** Image mode
 
 *** New library Exif.
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-ns.el b/lisp/obsolete/url-ns.el
similarity index 96%
rename from lisp/url/url-ns.el
rename to lisp/obsolete/url-ns.el
index 733f3a9e47..a301e461ad 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-ns.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/url-ns.el
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ;; Copyright (C) 1997-1999, 2004-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Keywords: comm, data, processes, hypermedia
+;; Obsolete-since: 27.1
 
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
@@ -19,6 +20,11 @@
 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 ;; along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; This file is obsolete.  For more information, see:
+;; https://debbugs.gnu.org/19822
+
 ;;; Code:
 
 (require 'url-gw)
-- 
2.23.0