From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution] Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:12:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tw0h0yem.fsf@gnu.org> <83lglr24ck.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp5azh33.fsf@gnu.org> <87aee030-ec9e-2178-c63c-20e0bd21fa4e@cs.ucla.edu> <838thpznkv.fsf@gnu.org> <9a6bda99-98c6-9bf2-51af-dfd36e763a45@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504977195 16781 195.159.176.226 (9 Sep 2017 17:13:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 17:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 19:13:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqjJa-0003ys-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 19:13:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqjJi-0007SU-4z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqjJW-0007Rb-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqjJV-0003Vd-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqjJR-0003TJ-1s; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dqjJQ-0004PR-Br; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:12:56 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Fabrice Popineau on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:20:01 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218072 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Maybe I am naive, but I don't see why a bug existing in previous releases > should be blocking. Because this bug is so grave we must not tolerate its presence. > If the bug exists in say emacs 25.1, blocking the release of 26.1 will not > prevent > people to be at risk because they will continue to use 25.1. We should urge them all to upgrade to the new Emacs 25 release that we should make as soon as we can. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.