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Subject: Re: Emacs 25 Mojave fixes backport
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> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 17:29:07 +1000
> 
> > there will be no more Emacs 25 releases
> 
> What a bummer.

??? Why a bummer?  Emacs 26.1 is already out, and it's standing Emacs
policy not to keep emacs-N branches active once Emacs M.1 was
released, where M > N.  We only make exceptions when we uncover a
critical security issue with prior versions; otherwise we simply tell
users to upgrade their Emacs.