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bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA |
Date: |
Fri, 24 May 2019 22:43:48 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rcopley@gmail.com, 35739@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 15:31:42 -0400
>
> > And why is that relevant to the issue at hand, which is not to make
> > backward-incompatible changes in existing APIs?
>
> I consider myself fairly well versed in Emacs's coding systems. Yet,
> I don't know what decoding text into a unibyte buffer will do and can't
> find any doc that describes it.
>
> I such a context, I think preserving such a behavior is harmful in the
> long term because it will keep fundamentally buggy code half-working
> and keep spreading confusion about how coding systems work and people
> copy&pasting broken code.
>
> In the long term, I think we're better off introducing limited
> breakage where it leads to clearer errors that help clear up such
> confusions and fix bugs.
I disagree. This stuff worked for decades, and breaking it only
because it is under-documented is not a good idea. I'm okay with
documenting what that produces somewhere, but not with breaking it.
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, (continued)
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/22
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/22
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/22
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/23
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/23
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/23
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/23
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/24
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/24
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/24
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/24
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/25
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/25
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/25
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/14
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Richard Copley, 2019/05/15
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/15
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Richard Copley, 2019/05/15
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/29
- bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA, Richard Copley, 2019/05/29