From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
Cc: hanche@math.ntnu.no, jwiegley@gmail.com, 1452@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:42:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2nm2gyi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6wYYLmXxb7g0f6Xg6D4zRCgUdt-CdXSLPm7LH5AkoDRiKokg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Andrew Hyatt on Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:42:58 +0000)
> From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:42:58 +0000
> Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, hanche@math.ntnu.no, 1452@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> what I'm mostly trying to figure out is if there is *any* way to get
> code to be completely unmaintained.
I think removing it is the only way.
> We are, after all, trying to reduce the number of bugs (see the
> thread on 4k bugs) overall, and this is one way to do that. So the
> only way people would agree on right now, is if we remove the code
> entirely from emacs distribution. But I suspect that such a change
> would be rejected, even from obsolete packages, because someone
> might still be depending on them.
It depends on how long the package was obsolete, I guess.
We could define a policy, like a package is deleted after so-and-so
many months/years in obsolete/.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 13:53 bug#1452: 23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode, Harald Hanche-Olsen
[not found] ` <handler.1452.B.122796683914175.ack@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
2008-11-29 14:52 ` bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,) Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-11-29 15:11 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2016-01-05 4:10 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 17:32 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-05 17:39 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 17:53 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2016-01-05 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 20:38 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-05 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 21:15 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2016-01-05 21:12 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 21:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-05 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-06 1:47 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-06 1:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-06 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 1:42 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 1:58 ` Handling bugs in obsolete code (was: bug#1452: ...) John Wiegley
2016-01-07 3:27 ` Handling bugs in obsolete code Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 6:03 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 7:59 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-07 8:28 ` CHENG Gao
2016-01-07 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 18:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-07 3:54 ` bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,) Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-06 8:28 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-06 18:16 ` Glenn Morris
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