From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:08:45 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1096285717.4157fe159930b@imp1-q.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096290660 11310 80.91.229.6 (27 Sep 2004 13:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 15:10:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CBvHG-0005wE-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvNU-00033Y-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvMO-0002eb-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvMM-0002e0-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:16:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvMM-0002du-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CBvFa-0002c3-Vc; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85818B30284; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:08:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BC44AC06C; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 472698CA23; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= In-Reply-To: <1096285717.4157fe159930b@imp1-q.free.fr> =?iso-8859-1?q?=28J=E9r=F4me?= Marant's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:48:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5), n'est pas un polluriel (inscrit sur la liste blanche), SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27611 > What we propose is to maintain bugfix releases from stable > releases. This is exactly the kind of job we are doing with > the Debian Emacs package: collecting bugfixes, backporting > fixes from the trunk. > Currently, bugs are only fixed in the trunk and Emacs users > needs to wait for the next stable releases to see their bugs > fixed. Unfortunately, Emacs releases are quite rare and this is > understandable because releasing is boring. Actually, we already have "the RC branch" from which 21.2 and 21.3 came. So I agree to the extent that "Debian patches" should be applied to the RC branch of Emacs rather than just to the Debian Emacs package (assuming the fixes are sufficiently clean, of course). Stefan