From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recent fix in handling vc-tor Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:16:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tu4z7kc0.fsf@gnus.org> <87leqb7jz8.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35321"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 05:18:31 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obZCw-0008y4-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:18:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obZCu-0005W6-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41568) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obZBQ-0004h6-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obZBQ-0006Mv-HB; Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:16:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=t0HUiZ1Aq31tmhMcdWDUP9TYRmA6FDOEedCXHAUmVsY=; b=qR0uGc+17qWc D3aqii/gMnkZ+RC2oesYouJlDu2+yT9kiefIE2dqZ0M2O5d1j5FT80XVAmxgUP+V8g4yDJrNzjd4o n7AfV6B9BTTbWwvOIXAjVH07JS1WIgUNTITNzfTUqyY7gL1f29TMUNHa9OhcQHQSh1mWpQ2xtnhrk MmxImop1P5nHg94W+I4qkaJNVuJ5KfYrVZTNMsbsMmd78sylk1bWdRNZ+iSOgAB8wT/9fKdlpPXTF uDDbstjaOx2TQ6MQdk+zIQOdKW2SmkPDB592oyMDa1hg+XCeZnbfOqdQEYgRwpGa0iXgEYELKVuFj UreCQI3+D3Lx9ilh0DdJWQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obZBQ-0007TB-8A; Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:16:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87leqb7jz8.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:59:39 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296016 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)