From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:24:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452572679 21680 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2016 04:24:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:24:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 05:24:34 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 1aIqVV-0000Qg-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:24:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqVU-0006e4-Mn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqVR-0006dz-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqVO-0007id-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqVO-0007iQ-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:24:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqVM-0000Jx-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from 184-175-3-20.dsl.teksavvy.com ([184-175-3-20.dsl.teksavvy.com]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 184-175-3-20.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:24:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184-175-3-20.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ERtL9dTBmgHeEd/0kbQV6cxT38k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:198060 Archived-At: > We've repeatedly seen reports from people who jump 2 major releases, > so I think removing sooner than after a full major release cycle is > not something we should start with. Agreed. And that matches our past behavior: we generally purge features marked obsolete more than 2 major versions ago (tho the condition shouldn't be based on counting major versions but on years, IMO). Stefan