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bug#44139: Consider remove package emacs-cl-generic


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: bug#44139: Consider remove package emacs-cl-generic
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:41:32 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com> writes:

> According to the description of emacs-cl-generic, it exists to provide
> some backward compatibility for old Emacsen(< 25)
>
> However, the Guix already package Emacs 27(even 28 on master branch).
> IMO, emacs-cl-generic have done its job and we no longer need it.
>
> Package emacs-finalize depends on emacs-cl-generic, it should still work
> after we remove this dependency. If user install this package
> accidentally, it may shadow the real cl-generic.el bundled with Emacs itself. 

The package has now been removed (commit f1939f7d16), and emacs-finalize
no longer depend on it.

Thank you for the report!

Closing,

Maxim





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