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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:46:28 -0500
> 
> With things like verilog mode, the attitude seems to be "it's never
> been in an Emacs release, therefore we can keep modifying it up to the
> last minute, because there's no pre-existing behaviour to break". I
> don't think this makes sense.

No, it doesn't, because the goal is to release a stable Emacs, not
just Emacs that is no worse than the previous version.