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: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:04:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83wp4rciys.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87r2vctasb.fsf@petton.fr> <87mv60t6sk.fsf@petton.fr> <87efrbu5hi.fsf@petton.fr> <834lrwfpsy.fsf@gnu.org> <87mv5nzt2b.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506063916 27537 195.159.176.226 (22 Sep 2017 07:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 07:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rcopley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 22 09:05:10 2017 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 1dvI1O-0006mi-9a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:05:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvI1T-0001Tx-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvI0r-0001SH-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvI0n-0008Gj-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:04:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49810) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvI0n-0008Gf-15; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3469 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dvI0m-0002nZ-Gg; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:04:32 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mv5nzt2b.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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:218676 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:37:48 +0100 > Cc: Richard Copley , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Perhaps, I should start uploading binaries to alpha.gnu.org for a few > days, before moving them to release; this would be the second set of > binaries to have an issue in this cycle. That's normally done, AFAIK, but for an emergency release it would be good to be able to avoid an extra upload to a different place. I don't think we should canonicalize a solution to this particular problem. It is quite unique. I knew about the issue for a few years, but never suspected a back-stab from MinGW import libraries. Chances for this scenario to repeat itself are quite slim. The only amendment to our procedures that I'd suggest to consider is to ask a couple of people to unpack and run the binary on various versions of Windows once it's uploaded. This is what Nicolas did with the source tarball, after uploading it to the GNU FTP site.