Re: Branch freezing for release

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> Cc: <npostavs@gmail.com>,  <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:39:24 +0100
> 
> >> [1: 10cd65878c]: Update documentation for indent-relative functions
> >>   2019-04-05 19:48:21 -0500
> >>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=10cd65878c741d2a22a1f2c36c54fcad4e516f72
> >> 
> >> [2: 0e468a6204]: Avoid using obsolete indent-relative-maybe
> >>   2019-04-03 17:55:40 +0100
> >>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=0e468a620458fecd003c396050aa6deb722982c1
> >> 
> >> [3: 690c678fb6]: Fix comment-empty-lines docstring (bug#35152)
> >>   2019-04-04 23:41:02 +0100
> >>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=690c678fb6c1fb5b2f828f9bb90782bd0b01c399
> >> 
> >> N.B.: Commit [2] also includes small code changes, not just docfixes.
> >
> > I hope you now know the answer; if not, please ask for clarifications.
> 
> My understanding is that commits [1] and [3] above are automatically
> safe and I may backport them, and that backporting commit [2] is
> unlikely to receive your blessing.

Yes, correct.

> But I would like to ask for it nonetheless, since commit [2] is an
> obvious fix™ for a regression in 26.1:
> 
> [4: a9973a3c16]: Extend 'indent-relative' when its arg is non-nil
>   2016-11-18 11:02:55 +0200
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a9973a3c164060bde08a717b46023a3bf68909c8

The regression doesn't look serious enough to warrant a change at this
late stage.  We can talk about it again after Emacs 26.2 is out.

Thanks.