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bug#31339: 25.3.50; package-list-packages does not provide useful error
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npostavs |
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bug#31339: 25.3.50; package-list-packages does not provide useful error when gnutls-cli is missing |
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Mon, 13 May 2019 16:02:58 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.92 (windows-nt) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Does an end-user who does not compile Emacs themselves receive any
>> notification about avoiding tls.el?
>
> Hm... It's in lisp/obsolete.
Note: it wasn't when Glenn posted that. See Bug#31457 "27.0.50; Move
starttls.el and tls.el to lisp/obsolete/".
> Does Emacs have a general method to warn
> about requiring files in that directory?
Emacs does warn about requiring files from obsolete. Users loading
tls.el will now get this in *Messages*:
Package tls is obsolete!
It's not super visible though, opening a connection with tls.el produces
several other messages too, so it looks something like this:
Opening TLS connection to ‘example.com’...
Opening TLS connection with ‘gnutls-cli --x509cafile
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt -p 443 example.com’...
Package tls is obsolete!
Opening TLS connection with ‘gnutls-cli --x509cafile
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt -p 443 example.com’...done
Opening TLS connection to ‘example.com’...done