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> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: npostavs@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 11:05:08 +0200
> 
> Okay. But I would think that it needs to be sooner rather than
> later. The time could disappear very rapidly with summer coming up. Even
> as it stands, there may be many GNU/Linux distributions that will not
> update before the key runs out which is a bit messy.

I proposed to start a pretest more than a week ago, so I obviously
agree.  I still see many proposals for backporting fixes and fixing
regressions, so maybe others want to wait a bit.