From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: when do we remove backward compatibility definitions? Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:04:22 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509635110 10855 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2017 15:05:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:05:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 16:04:52 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 1eAH31-00019r-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:04:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAH38-00043v-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAH2x-00043l-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAH2t-0000zr-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:04:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51121 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAH2t-0000xp-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAH2j-0008Gc-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:04:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:tzBV22DewmVziz3V55lRj4oA8d0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:219868 Archived-At: Hi, Gnus has a few backward compatibility face declarations like this: (put 'gnus-group-news-4-face 'obsolete-face "22.1") Emacs 22.1 was released on 2007-06-02 -- over 10 years ago. What is the policy on removing such declarations? R releases? M major releases? Y years? Where is it officially documented? Thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1504 http://steingoldpsychology.com http://www.childpsy.net http://islamexposedonline.com http://jij.org https://jihadwatch.org "Complete Idiots Guide to Running LINUX Unleashed in a Nutshell for Dummies"