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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recent fix in handling vc-tor
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:16:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1obZBQ-0007TB-8A@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leqb7jz8.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu,  22 Sep 2022 12:59:39 +0200)

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  > Richard added the variable in 2019, but it never worked?

I don't think I wrote the code, though I can't remember.
The crucial point is that it DID NOT VISIBLY FAIL.
Anyone using it would have assumed it was working as documented.

We should not become rigidly attached to a rule about regressions.
There are other things that affect the gravity of a problem.


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-22  3:12 Recent fix in handling vc-tor Richard Stallman
2022-09-22 10:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-22 10:59   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-23  3:16     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-09-22 11:17   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-22 11:42     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-23  3:16       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-23  8:34         ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-22 12:32   ` Eli Zaretskii

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