bug#43537: 26.3; "lost" diary entries - mark-diary-entries-in-calendar obsolete

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Par Kurlberg <kurlberg@math.kth.se> writes:

> Of course, in theory I've been amply warned - the documentation states
> "mark-diary-entries-in-calendar is obsolete since 23.1".  However, given
> that anyone who relies on keeping track of meetings via
> emacs/diary/calender easily might miss a few meetings before noticing
> this, perhaps emacs26+ could warn if mark-diary-entries-in-calendar is
> true whereas calendar-view-diary-initially-flag is unset?
>
> More generally, some sort of mechanisms for "important" upgrade warnings
> on obsolete variables having been removed would be very helpful, but it
> is perhaps hard to figure out / agree on exactly what are "important
> enough" changes.

Yeah, I don't think this is generally possible.  The variable in
question was obsoleted about a decade ago, which should be sufficient
time for people to adjust.  Adding more code to Emacs to warn people
about things happening that far in the past would not be productive use
of our time.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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