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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: 6675@debbugs.gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org
Subject: bug#6675: 23.2; field, header and headers
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:34:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oc1g3v3l.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iugmv8$7kv$1@dough.gmane.org> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Wed,  29 Jun 2011 20:28:13 -0600")

tags 6675 wontfix
close 6675
thanks

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

>> Yes, it's unfortunate that (especially older) functions in Gnus use
>> "field" where we really mean "header", but changing function names and
>> breaking third-party code for consistency here isn't worth it.
>
> defalias + make-obsolete = define-obsolete-function-alias

Not worth the churn.  Or breaking stuff eventually.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-30  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20  6:32 bug#6675: 23.2; field, header and headers Leo
2010-07-20  9:06 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-20 20:29   ` Leo
2011-06-30  0:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30  2:28   ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-06-30  2:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-06-30  3:14   ` Glenn Morris
2011-06-30 10:56     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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