Re: [PATCH 1/2] send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"

From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:51:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735vwfvln.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0p8hc5v.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sun, Apr 11 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So let's just remove it instead of fixing the bug, clearly nobody's
>> cared enough to complain.
>
> Hmph, is that a safe assumption?  They may have just assumed that
> you did not break it and kept using plaintext without knowing?  If
> we do not give a warning when sending over an unencrypted channel in
> red flashing letters, that is more likely explanation than nobody
> caring that we saw no breakage reports, no?

Maybe, I think in either case this patch series makes senes. We were
already 11 years into a stated deprecation period of that variable, now
it's 13.

If we're going to e.g. emit some notice about it I think the parsing
simplification this series gives us makes sense, we can always add a
trivial patch on top to make it die if it sees the old variable.

I don't think that's needed, do you?