From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:36:00 +0200 Message-ID: <22969.34976.706874.350971@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87tw07kikp.fsf@gnu.org> <4431.25452.741228.22968@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505331377 8111 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2017 19:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Roland Winkler , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 21:36:11 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 1dsDSD-0001t9-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:36:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDSK-0002j7-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDSF-0002j0-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDSB-00035w-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:56382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDSB-00033i-Ll; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (host2092.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ulm) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 61E7133BE69; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:36:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 140.211.166.183 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:218216 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Richard Stallman wrote: > Perhaps we should rename the Emacs 25.2 tarball and all the other > old tarballs, adding a suffix saying do not use. Please don't. That would break the download for distros who rely on pristine upstream sources and apply separate patches. For example, Gentoo still has packages app-editors/emacs-23.4-r16 and app-editors/emacs-24.5-r4 (of course, both *with* the fix for enriched-mode). Ulrich