Re: The SHA1 sunset

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> On the fourth hand, we release Emacs so seldomly that we have to plan for
> the future, so perhaps it should be in "medium" anyway.

Yeah, that was my thinking.

> It would have been nice if Emacs had a way to retroactively change these
> things. I mean, "push" very, very selective security-related updates on
> users... Hm... could we imagine using the package system for doing security
> updates? It would mean that Emacs would "call home" once in a while...

Or associate your warnings with times, and after a certain date being
proclaiming that doom is likely upon them.

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