On 04/15/2016 04:11 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> I would prefer to apply further patches to the master branch only. Only
> patches absolutely necessary for fixing problems shall go to the
> emacs-25 branch, in order not to threaten the release.
>
> After applying your patch, vc-tests.el fails for me in vc-test-src02-state
> and vc-test-rcs03-working-revision.

Here's the patch against master. The latter one doesn't fail there.

Could you handle the SRC test failure yourself? Either by fixing the 
relevant code, or by simply exempting SRC from the relevant check.