Re: Merging feature/android

[Richard Stallman]

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  > That wasn't the sort of security bug I was worried about. By not 
  > supporting these obsolete NDKs, Google is saying that apps built for 
  > older Android versions are unreliable or insecure or whatever. We can't 
  > expect users to fix those old Android bugs, and we likely lack resources 
  > to modify Emacs to work around them.

Those statements are true, interpreted strictly.  We can't "expect
users to fix" the bugs that manifest on old versions of Android, and
we can't fix them ourselves,  And we should not feel obliged to try.

But our users often _do_ fix bugs that involve old versions of systes
that they continue to use.  Although we do not have an obligation to
help develop those fixes, it would be a gratuitous unkindness to slam
the door on accepting those fixes.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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