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Re: master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient conver


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:53:09 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

>>     (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters
>>     
>>     * lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove converters
>>     from 2004 and before.
>>     * lisp/gnus/legacy-gnus-agent.el: Delete file.
>
> What prompted this change?  It's not exactly a mortal sin for code to be
> old or even ancient,

It's not the age of the code itself: it's code whose purpose is to
convert `.newsrc` files generated by Gnus from 2004 or before :-)
I think it's safe to assume that such files have long ceased to exist or to
be of any use.


        Stefan




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