bug#62751: 29.0.90; New libraries that still need to be assigned to packages

[Jonas Bernoulli]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
>> There are three more libraries that deserve some attention:
>>
>> - lisp/obsolete/otodo-mode.el
>>
>>   formerly known as todo-mode.el, was obsoleted a decade ago.
>>   Has the time for its removal come now? ;)
>
> otodo-mode.el was obsoleted in Emacs 24.4, which according to
> etc/HISTORY was released on 2014-10-20.
>
> We typically keep stuff on master for 10 years after it was marked
> obsolete in a release.  Doing it that way gives the community plenty of
> time to adapt, and keeping obsolete stuff around is usually more or less
> harmless.
>
> We delete stuff faster only if there's a clear reason for it, for
> example that it's clearly broken and/or harmful.  See browse-url.el for
> some examples of the former.
>
>> - lisp/obsolete/crisp.el
>> - lisp/obsolete/landmark.el
>>
>>   are available from GNU ELPA, so it seems unnecessary to keep
>>   them in emacs.git as well.
>
> You're not wrong, but they were obsoleted in 24.5 and 25.1.  So it's
> like above, but the dates are in 2025 and 2026, or something like that.

Alright.  Thanks for the clarification.