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Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qqBLk-0005VF-9r; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:56:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83ttr0vyyi.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:04:37 +0300) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:272200 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We don't retrofit fixes into old branches of Emacs that are no longer > developed; In general, that is a reasonable policy -- but maybe a serious security problem, which this eesms to be, calls for special treatment. we leave that to the distros (who maintain old Emacs > versions for many more years than we do). That might be sufficient for the problem, but we should think carefully about whether it _is_ sufficient. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)