Re: Permanently fix org versioning breakage during builds?

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Org mode may break in unexpected ways due to stale .elc that did not
>>> update their macro expansions.
>>
>> Yes.  That could happen even as part of the build, if the manuals
>> whose sources are *.org files need to be rebuilt.
>>
>> But such breakage happens at times anyway, when some macros change in
>> incompatible ways and files that have the old versions of those macros
>> compiled into them are not recompiled.  It isn't anything new for
>> people who regularly update from Git and rebuild Emacs.
>
> The main problem is that with org-assert-version, "from time to time"
> becomes more frequent as the breakage is guaranteed every time a new
> version of Org is installed into Emacs tree.
>
> Since we release a new minor Org version every few weeks, the breakage
> happens every few weeks.

Would it make sense to make `org-assert-version' less strict on master?
It might not be necessary to require bootstrap for every single bug fix
release, but I can see how it might be helpful for larger bumps.

Would that make sense?  I'm not terribly close to the problem, since I
bootstrap pretty often and only run from master.