From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52351: Is bad-packages-alist still relevant? Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ee6ky79w.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30808"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, 52351@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 21 05:18:07 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 1mzWbG-0007qb-9g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:18:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39998 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWbE-00016O-P8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWZH-0006Mq-2h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWZG-0001Is-Lx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWZF-0000go-SE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:16:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 04:16:01 +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=B52351.16400601402617 (code B ref 52351); Tue, 21 Dec 2021 04:16:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52351) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Dec 2021 04:15:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52019 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWYu-0000g9-JA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36588) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWYr-0000fu-Pr for 52351@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=35648 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWYm-00018Z-9a; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:32 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=VdzM1uLNfBy7X+NkqUxvZ/16m6iOOlHsGvxgDOAlZpY=; b=cgSnJhZGWXah MCxNo4lylsesEMcrkhPYDEitmiAivflx4Y6f0TxDmVms3E/1bkusfIH5W0Lj/2EwkLEypLJ0ZfnwK qPFirpZWV+bgwS1xCuNtUvRismRwObsxYqdntmkgncpR0KkI1yfE5TVsYBxCh093zL9dmbCdBrUOJ 9u1yQ0cVn1mBi+TdPMncVlwxvJmPesyh28IQmWZTw/OVb5d3a8nI2jaE+K7U1mHUUsPj91E/ITe7X +RO5EsFoVFEWklFuP450qbE69F9GhThzHD8/B7OXwbeFFEFht2UvBtL44lFpzH+8zu0X1gz6Haclf B8gS+dhUPzSSZFVWrXuCCg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWYl-0000rn-RS; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:15:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 19 Dec 2021 07:19:46 -0800) 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:222848 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] bad-packages-alist may be useful again some day, so please restore its non-obsoleteness. The specific issue about Semantic and Emacs 22 is no longer pertinent, so we should set the variable's default value to nil. However, that kind of problem could happen again some day. We hope it won't, but few of us are perfect and none of us is precognitive. Why not be prepared in case such problems occur again? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)