From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:51:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oacnwyg6.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453211524 21216 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 13:52:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 14:51:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWhO-00045d-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:51:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWhN-00043b-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:51:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWhB-00043U-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWhA-00008B-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWgZ-0008Mh-R0; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aLWgZ-0000aS-9V; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:51:03 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andrew Hyatt on Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:47:26 +0000) 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198353 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. ]]] If we want to have two stages of obsolescence, we can find names for them. The real question is the substance: do we want two stages, and if so, what do they mean? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.