From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:42:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2nm2gyi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20081129.145347.35808910.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20081129.155222.124907962.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20081129.161126.71259916.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <5vy4c46ifr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83oacz5188.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4c32wwf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452138204 6680 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 03:43:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 03:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hanche@math.ntnu.no, jwiegley@gmail.com, 1452@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 04:43:11 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1aH1Ti-0000df-Oz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1Ti-00061q-1R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1Te-00061M-71 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1Ta-0005nF-6e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1Ta-0005nB-39 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1TZ-0004f6-V0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:43:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 03:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 1452 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 1452-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B1452.145213815117879 (code B ref 1452); Thu, 07 Jan 2016 03:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1452) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jan 2016 03:42:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40723 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1T5-0004eJ-H3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:42:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36055) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1T3-0004e5-5s for 1452@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1Su-0005a5-1v for 1452@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1St-0005a1-Us; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:42:19 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1376 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1Ss-0001Xu-Tn; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:42:19 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andrew Hyatt on Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:42:58 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:111311 Archived-At: > From: Andrew Hyatt > 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/.