On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 11:10 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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> "Deprecated" is neither weaker nor stronger than "obsolete".  Rather,
> they are different in quality.
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> "Obsolete" means "This was useful before, but not now, since the
> context has changed."  "Deprecated" means "We disapprove of this."
>

Sounds like it might not make sense to transition from deprecated to
obsolete then.

Given the state of the discussion, I can write this up somewhere in the
source - maybe a README in the osbsolete dir, or a note somewhere in admin
dir?  If anyone has any advice on where would be good, let me know.


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