From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:13 +0000 Message-ID: <87oacnwyg6.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452812982 27218 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2016 23:09:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andrew Hyatt , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 00:09:36 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 1aJr1M-0007ml-3a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:09:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44848 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJr1L-0007oK-EQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJr19-0007oA-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:09:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJr18-0001VX-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:50728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJr12-0001UX-O2; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aJr10-0000D9-Fw; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:14 +0000 Original-Received: from cpc1-benw10-2-0-cust373.gate.cable.virginm.net ([77.98.219.118] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aJr10-00088j-OE; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:49:55 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:198163 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > Also, can you give an example of something that is obsolete but > > shouldn't be removed? That might help me understand your concern. > > defadvice might be a good example. Perhaps we need an intermediate directory, called "deprecated". Not obsolete, should probably still autoload -- putting defadvice into obsolete will break some packages for this reason alone, but should produce warnings. The intention would be that "deprecated" packages would move to "obsolete" there after. Phil