From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:11:26 +0200 Message-ID: <835zk4opxt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55375867020000A100019F48@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> <87pniex9a4.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> <2ecef70596fda1bcaaaa31944a01a39a@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83eeytnffd.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="239354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de, 20403@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 31 17:41:03 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQDVM-00105p-Fs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:41:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52590 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQDVL-0005q5-43 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD3N-0006HF-E5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD3L-0007Wl-Ed for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD3K-0007VF-1c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD3J-0001sa-Rs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:12:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20403 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 20403-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20403.15725382947185 (code B ref 20403); Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20403) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Oct 2019 16:11:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54124 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD2r-0001rp-Ph for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55120) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD2q-0001rW-2Q for 20403@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD2k-0006NF-C2; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4448 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iQD2j-0003PU-NY; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:11:26 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:04:53 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170535 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:04:53 +0100 > Cc: Phil Sainty , Ulrich Windl , > 20403@debbugs.gnu.org > > > That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch. Symlinks > > complicate VCS operations in general. > > Does that hold even if NEWS is a symlink also on the release branch? Yes, because it's a symlink to a different file. > (FWIW, I also think it would be nice to switch to org-mode.) Yep.