From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion to indicate fixed version when closing a bug Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:10:56 -0500 Message-ID: <5dhb18p7i7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83d3bwn7mu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323544268 13049 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2011 19:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 20:11:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSK5-0003Be-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:11:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSK4-000811-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSK2-00080l-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:10:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSK1-0006Pg-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48541) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSK1-0006Pc-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSK0-0006qs-Vl; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:10:56 -0500 X-Spook: analyzer Putin Bush Wired data haven TELINT Israel UNSCOM X-Ran: G%K)_j5w:rVE'BiHia)Z@"ptUnOsx{gspg?`g5\dr?iwKF9do$mnG//7HDit2HUTYU<|Ig X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83d3bwn7mu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:38:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146619 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Why is this important? I think it is easy to do, and useful so that people who are experiencing a bug can easily check if it is supposed to be fixed in some later version of Emacs. This may be particularly useful during pretesting, when version numbers change more rapidly. For a more specific example, it would have helped avoid some of the recent confusion about bugs reported in Emacs 23.[12] that were only ever fixed in the Emacs trunk, not 23.3.