From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out!
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:45:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8bwqo9q.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vz136nge3te.fsf@gmail.com
Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu 21 Mar 2019, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>
>> Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a branch or a tag on the repository reflecting this version? I
>>> couldn't find any, sorry if I missed it.
>>
>> As it is a release candidate, the tarball contains some changes related
>> to the Emacs version being 26.2 and its release date (currently set to
>> the 27th) that should not be pushed yet.
>
> A tarball for distribution should not contain anything that has not
> been committed to version control.
+1
> If you have content that you do not want to appear (yet) on the release
> branch, then make a branch for the release candidate, tag a commit on
> that branch and the checkout that tag to build the tarball.
+2
OTOH, it is very important to test the tarball itself. Those who check
out a tag from VC, build and test are doing useful work, but what they
are testing is not what is released.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-21 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-20 22:21 Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out! Nicolas Petton
2019-03-21 6:06 ` Van L
2019-03-21 8:22 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-21 8:01 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-03-21 8:16 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-21 9:43 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-03-21 13:48 ` Andy Moreton
2019-03-21 14:45 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2019-03-21 20:50 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-22 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 8:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-22 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 9:37 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-22 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 9:51 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-22 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 10:16 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-03-22 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 12:32 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-03-22 10:14 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-03-22 11:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-03-22 16:39 ` Glenn Morris
2019-03-22 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 16:48 ` Glenn Morris
2019-03-25 9:50 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2019-03-25 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 14:46 ` Nicolas Petton
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