bug#40703: [PATCH] Make autoarg.el obsolete

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAIR, when we deprecate a package, it's because there's some
> replacement, or because the need is completely absent (e.g., because
> the package caters to some software or part of Emacs that is no longer
> there).  This doesn't seem to be the case, is it?
>
> Or does this package cause us some maintenance burden?

Well, as it stands 'autoarg-kp-mode' is broken.  It enables
'autoarg-mode', which kind of defeats the point of having a separate
mode to only enable this behaviour for the keypad.  I suggest
deprecation as a better alternative than leaving it in a broken state
or spending any time to fix it.

I don't know if that's in line with our deprecation practices, but I
would assume there is some room to make judgement calls.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas