Re: Branch freezing for release

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Cc: <npostavs@gmail.com>,  <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:39:24 +0100
>> 
>> >> [1: 10cd65878c]: Update documentation for indent-relative functions
>> >>   2019-04-05 19:48:21 -0500
>> >>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=10cd65878c741d2a22a1f2c36c54fcad4e516f72
>> >> 
>> >> [2: 0e468a6204]: Avoid using obsolete indent-relative-maybe
>> >>   2019-04-03 17:55:40 +0100
>> >>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=0e468a620458fecd003c396050aa6deb722982c1
>> >> 
>> >> [3: 690c678fb6]: Fix comment-empty-lines docstring (bug#35152)
>> >>   2019-04-04 23:41:02 +0100
>> >>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=690c678fb6c1fb5b2f828f9bb90782bd0b01c399
>> >> 
>> >> N.B.: Commit [2] also includes small code changes, not just docfixes.
>> >
>> > I hope you now know the answer; if not, please ask for clarifications.
>> 
>> My understanding is that commits [1] and [3] above are automatically
>> safe and I may backport them, and that backporting commit [2] is
>> unlikely to receive your blessing.
>
> Yes, correct.

Thanks, I backported those two earlier today.

>> But I would like to ask for it nonetheless, since commit [2] is an
>> obvious fix™ for a regression in 26.1:
>> 
>> [4: a9973a3c16]: Extend 'indent-relative' when its arg is non-nil
>>   2016-11-18 11:02:55 +0200
>>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a9973a3c164060bde08a717b46023a3bf68909c8
>
> The regression doesn't look serious enough to warrant a change at this
> late stage.  We can talk about it again after Emacs 26.2 is out.

Wilco.

-- 
Basil