Apply "pending" patches

Apply "pending" patches

[Glenn Morris]

If you have a fix for a bug marked "pending", you might like to apply it
to the trunk now:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?tag=pending;package=emacs

Re: Apply "pending" patches

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/09/2012 01:46 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> If you have a fix for a bug marked "pending", you might like to apply it
> to the trunk now:
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?tag=pending;package=emacs

Thanks for reminding us.  I'd like to apply the pending
integer-overflow patch <http://debbugs.gnu.org/9874#37> but have not
yet done so because when Stefan announced the emacs-24 branch, he
wrote "please refrain from installing pervasive changes" into the
trunk.  I wasn't sure whether the integer-overflow patch counts as a
pervasive change: although it affects only files under src/* it does
affects several dozen of them.

Since Chong recently installed into the trunk a patch (bzr 107813)
that affects many more files than the integer-overflow patch, perhaps
the pervasive-change restriction doesn't simply mean "a change that
affects a lot of files".  If so, I'd like to install the
integer-overflow patch after a bit more private integration testing.

Re: Apply "pending" patches

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks for reminding us.  I'd like to apply the pending
> integer-overflow patch <http://debbugs.gnu.org/9874#37> but have not
> yet done so because when Stefan announced the emacs-24 branch, he
> wrote "please refrain from installing pervasive changes" into the
> trunk.  I wasn't sure whether the integer-overflow patch counts as a
> pervasive change: although it affects only files under src/* it does
> affects several dozen of them.

Yes, it's clearly on the pervasive side, so if you could hold on to it
until after the release, it would be appreciated.

> Since Chong recently installed into the trunk a patch (bzr 107813)
> that affects many more files than the integer-overflow patch, perhaps
> the pervasive-change restriction doesn't simply mean "a change that
> affects a lot of files".

His changes also count as pervasive in my book, indeed, so I'd have
preferred to wait until after the release to install it.  Oh well!


        Stefan

Re: Apply "pending" patches

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> If you have a fix for a bug marked "pending", you might like to apply it
> to the trunk now:

Looks like the "pending" status experiment was pretty successful.  Makes
it really easy to find the reports in question.  :-)

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