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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: debbugs.el revisited
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:48:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxgw2cm2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <974o348tfp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:48:42 -0400")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> The version number is the version number the fix has been applied to?
>> Then perhaps it could just default to sending over
>>
>> emacs-version
>> => "24.0.50.6"
>>
>> if the user doesn't override it?
>
> I think that's a bad idea. The right number to use in that case would be
> "24.1", ie the first _release_ in which something is fixed. "24.0.50.6",
> or even "24.0.50" is a meaningless version number.

It can be useful during pretesting to have the pretest version number in
there, so users can know whether a bug is supposed to be fixed in the
current pretest version or the next one.  But the .50 version number is
not useful, as it does not change over a long period.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-03  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-30 17:57 debbugs.el revisited Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 19:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 20:45 ` Michael Albinus
2011-06-30 21:02 ` Chong Yidong
2011-06-30 21:08   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 23:26     ` Glenn Morris
2011-06-30 23:34       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-01  2:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-01  7:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-01  8:59         ` Štěpán Němec
2011-07-01  9:25     ` Julien Danjou
2011-07-01 11:16       ` Michael Albinus
2011-07-02  1:14         ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-02 12:58           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-02 13:04             ` Michael Albinus
2011-07-02 17:48             ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-02 18:03               ` Michael Albinus
2011-07-02 18:08                 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-02 20:14               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-02 20:54                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-02 21:09                   ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-07-02 21:15                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-02 22:19                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-02 23:08                       ` joakim
2011-07-04 14:47                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-03  0:09                       ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-07-03  6:34                         ` Michael Albinus
2011-07-02 22:30                   ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-03  4:48               ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2011-07-03 11:07                 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-02 16:37           ` Michael Albinus

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