XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist 
 From: spwhitton@spwhitton.name 
  
 Hello, 
  
 On Thu 28 Aug 2025 at 06:07pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote: 
  
 > Specifically for compat-el, I don't think it's useful in Debian anymore. 
  
 This makes sense to me, but do we know why it was ever useful? 
  
 I guess it's only useful when the version of Emacs in Debian is a major 
 version behind upstream?  Which is generally only a short lived 
 situation? 
  
 -- 
 Sean Whitton 
  
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