Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements

[Juri Linkov]

>> According to Google, for example, there is a package called
>> neophyte.el that creates advice for describe-project, which you've
>> renamed to describe-gnu-project.
>
> If we talk about <http://web.springies.com/~ats/emacs/neophyte.el>,
> IMHO there's no need to introduce compatibility aliases for external
> packages that have been not been updated since more than 10 years[1].
>
> Are there other packages that use the old names?

ISTR there was a policy to declare a function obsolete in the upcoming
release, that gives enough time for authors to fix external packages,
and after this release delete it in the next release.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/