From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:24:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1096291460.4158148407699@imp6-q.free.fr> References: <1096285717.4157fe159930b@imp1-q.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096291510 14030 80.91.229.6 (27 Sep 2004 13:25:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 15:25:01 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 1CBvUz-00075T-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:25:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvbA-0006wK-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvaw-0006sm-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvav-0006s6-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBvav-0006rm-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.228.0.176] (helo=postfix4-2.free.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CBvUM-0004xA-4s; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: from imp6-q.free.fr (imp6-q.free.fr [212.27.42.6]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598DF1FF7E2; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:24:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by imp6-q.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id 249DE1E773; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:24:20 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mure.msy.sagem.com (mure.msy.sagem.com [62.160.59.178]) by imp6-q.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:24:20 +0200 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 62.160.59.178 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:27613 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27613 Quoting Stefan Monnier : > > 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). It is much easier to create a new branch for every stable release: you can then avoid the pain of CVS merges for the same cost (I'm not inventing anything, GCC people do this). -- J=E9r=F4me Marant