From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps. Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:36:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83va4dbhsk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20181128120443.GA4036@ACM> <20181129220552.GI12576@ACM> <9dde4ed7-8401-6022-a668-258d48bb7726@cs.ucla.edu> <20181130185503.GA16256@ACM> <20181130220218.GB16256@ACM> <138d56b7-53df-1ea5-377c-8502245f1b6b@cs.ucla.edu> <5C0239DA.4030907@gmx.at> <831s71d566.fsf@gnu.org> <20181201110817.GA5102@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543664109 20732 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2018 11:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 01 12:35:04 2018 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 1gT3Y8-0005G2-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT3aE-0005ip-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT3ZX-0005iY-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT3ZT-00021c-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:36:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gT3ZT-00021Y-NV; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:36:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1864 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gT3ZT-00041E-AS; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:36:27 -0500 In-reply-to: <20181201110817.GA5102@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:08:17 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:231551 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:08:17 +0000 > Cc: martin rudalics , eggert@cs.ucla.edu, > michael_heerdegen@web.de, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Eli, I think it's up to you to accept or reject this bug fix. Sorry, no. My personal preference should be quite clear from what I wrote, but last time I tried something like that, I got a s**tstorm. Evidently, my prestige is not high enough to get something like that through. So I'm not going to try doing that again, not here anyway. > It's your personal responsibility. There cannot be a responsibility without the authority to go with it. > Suppose we don't fix this bug. Then we should close all the pertinent > bug reports as "won't fix". Additionally, the documentation of the byte > compiler needs to be amended to match the reality. I propose the > following patch to .../doc/lispref/compile.texi: Fine with me, thanks. Although I'd recommend amending the footnote to be less specific to when the fix was proposed.