Re: master d506d91b1f 2/2: Make linum.el obsolete

[Stefan Kangas]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> If I try to load linum now, I just get a message that it is deprecated,

That's weird, shouldn't that be

diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 59f9308f31..7a0896e91e 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -5557,7 +5557,7 @@ do-after-load-evaluation
            (package (intern (substring file 0
                                       (string-match "\\.elc?\\>" file))
                             obarray))
-          (msg (format "Package %s is deprecated" package))
+           (msg (format "Package %s is obsolete" package))
           (fun (lambda (msg) (message "%s" msg))))
       (when (or (not (fboundp 'byte-compile-warning-enabled-p))
                 (byte-compile-warning-enabled-p 'obsolete package))

> but no hint to use `display-line-numbers-mode'.  Can that be added?

I don't think we have any way of displaying such messages.  Maybe it
would be worth adding, though.