bug#29309: 25.2; Gnus: please make message-from-style 'angles the only option

[Michael Stapelberg]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:
>
>>>> Let us please make Gnus a better citizen by following the RFC’s
>>>> recommendation and removing the legacy form.
>>>
>>> I see no reason to remove the legacy form, unless you want to go to
>>> the trouble of writing code to nag people to change their setup. You
>>> might have an argument for changing the default to be 'angles though.
>>
>> I don’t follow. Why would people need to change their setup? We could
>> just discard the option altogether and always use 'angles, couldn’t
>> we?
>
> Ah, you want to remove the configuration variable entirely. I think
> we'd have to obsolete it first, wait for a release cycle, and then
> maybe remove it. Removing variables tends not to be fast for Emacs.

Could we make it ineffective before removing it entirely? I think
making it ineffective could be done right away.

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Best regards,
Michael