Re: master d506d91b1f 2/2: Make linum.el obsolete

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> AFAIU we don't use "deprecated" in Emacs at all.

We don't use it very frequently.  You could grep for it in our tree.

Notably, we seem to use it here:

    Package longlines is deprecated

Does anyone object to changing that to "obsolete"?

> Alternatively, how about this.  Every time an obsolete file is removed,
> it gets moved to some other folder (i.e. obsolete-gone) that is not
> scanned for autoloads or byte-compiled, or possibly even in a repository
> maintained separately from the rest of Emacs.

Maybe the emacsattic would be interested in keeping them around:

    https://github.com/emacsattic