Re: status of emacs-25 branch

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com,  eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  phillip.lord@russet.org.uk,  rgm@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 09:39:13 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> There's also the bug that Tramp is blocked with OpenSSH 7.x(*), which
> >> I've fixed recently in Emacs 26.1. I'll backport it to the emacs-25
> >> branch, because I'll expect more people being hit by this in the near
> >> future. Will do next days.
> >
> > Is the fix just in 6de77cfa9da1, or are there other changes needed for
> > this?
> 
> Exactly this, nothing else. Is it OK to push it to the emacs-25 branch?

> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:45:03 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, rgm@gnu.org, 
>  "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
> 
>  > Thanks.  Let's see first what people think about this.
> 
> About a month ago N. Jackson asked wrt to Bug#25851:
> 
>     Can the patch be applied to the emacs-25 branch in case there is
>     ever an Emacs 25.3?
> 
> and I answered that
> 
>     If and when there is let's discuss this with Eli.
> 
> So please consider porting that patch to Emacs 25.3 provided you decide
> that there will be such a release.  See also Bug#26855 in this regard.

It sounds like there will be no Emacs 25.3, so there's no need to
back-port these to the emacs-25 branch.

Thanks.