From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: when do we remove backward compatibility definitions? Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:48:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9nub9gz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834lpncsce.fsf@gnu.org> <831skrcqtb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511365774 4955 195.159.176.226 (22 Nov 2017 15:49:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sds@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 16:49:28 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHXH9-0000Zu-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:49:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHXHH-0008OH-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHXGM-0007zV-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHXGM-0007mJ-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHXGH-0007ks-Lx; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4756 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eHXGH-0003q4-5X; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:48:29 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Sam Steingold on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:57:16 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220357 Archived-At: > From: Sam Steingold > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:57:16 -0500 > > these seem clear-cut: > > mail/sendmail.el:(make-obsolete-variable 'mail-yank-hooks 'mail-citation-hook "19.34") > mh-e/mh-letter.el(mh-make-obsolete-variable 'mh-yank-hooks 'mail-citation-hook "19.34") > > these are more controversial: > > select.el: > ;; Only declared obsolete in 23.3. > (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-selection 'x-get-selection "at least 19.34") > > subr.el: > ;; Lisp manual only updated in 22.1. > (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'executing-macro 'executing-kbd-macro > "before 19.34") I think all of these except x-selection can be removed (on master, please). Thanks.