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bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated wi
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:44:15 +0200 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > I don't feel very strongly about this, but I'm curious: Why don't you
> > want to obsolete at least some of them? I think they add user
> > confusion and are just not very helpful.
>
> How would obsoleting them help avoid that confusion?
I think in at least two ways:
1. Obsoleting is a fairly strong sign that this is code that it's
probably better to avoid.
2. AFAIU, the point of obsoleting a file is to eventually remove it.
If it doesn't exist, it can't confuse anyone.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/01