From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Request for policy ruling - dropping Arch support fom VC? Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:50:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141205231217.B9D6F383525@snark.thyrsus.com> <20141206060548.GB14890@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417906283 20515 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 22:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 22:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 23:51:14 2014 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 1XxOC1-0000Uq-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:51:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOC1-0007ix-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOBg-0007iN-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:51:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOBZ-0000jo-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:50:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:60980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxOBY-0000jk-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:50:44 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQcBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBg2GgTYF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQcBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBg2GgTYF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99730053" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-234.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.164.234]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 06 Dec 2014 17:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CBB31986F; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 17:50:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20141206060548.GB14890@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Sat, 6 Dec 2014 01:05:48 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:179221 Archived-At: >> It should be pretty easy to check if Emacs-24.4's vc-arch.el works right. > Not as easy as you might think. Ubuntu doesn't package Arch, which is > a pretty good clue that nobody has cared about it for quite a while. It's still in Debian. > The last source snapshot was made nine years ago. I downloaded it and looked; I know, but AFAIK "it just works" and has *very* few dependencies, so it never needed new releases to adapt to new versions of its dependencies. In any case it's not terribly important to do tests, I was suggesting doing it if you want to figure out when things broke, assuming installing tla was easy (which it is under Debian, even on armhf). > That's doable. I think I've finished making incompatible API changes, > so we can put this code on ice knowing that fixing it (if we ever have > to) will be pretty trivial. Great. > Let's do what you were considering and move the arch back end to the > obsolete directory, also taking Arch out of the supported-backends list. > That way the VC test code won't trip over it, but it will be handy if > someone shows up wanting Arch support. Fine, Stefan