From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-24.5-rc3.tar.xz modified in place Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:00:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83iod4tcpl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pp7dro0p.fsf@netris.org> <83iod4v38r.fsf@gnu.org> <21799.38453.712043.482146@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <833848uvty.fsf@gnu.org> <21799.45483.672042.175923@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428667261 26644 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2015 12:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mhw@netris.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 10 14:00:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YgXc8-00042L-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:00:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgXc7-0003Dt-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42215) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgXc3-0003DS-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgXc0-0006GA-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgXbz-0006Fu-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NML00700AHD9B00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:00:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NML0074LAP10L80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:00:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <21799.45483.672042.175923@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185259 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:19:07 +0200 > Cc: mhw@netris.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Ulrich Mueller > > >>>>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> Also this isn't the first time that such a thing has happened: > >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-08/msg00028.html > > > And probably also not the last, as much as we want to avoid that. > > Natural numbers aren't a limited resource, so I don't understand why > you cannot increase the version number. It has zero cost and would > easily avoid all the trouble. It's not zero cost, because each candidate needs to be reflected in the repository, and potentially also in the ChangeLog files. Which is not to say these incidents shouldn't be avoided, just that there might be valid reasons sometimes not to go through all that stuff.