From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:39:05 +0900 Message-ID: <87k4kkdzkm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87bp5xg2b2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wrokegq0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289464656 30084 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 08:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 09:37:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGSeh-0004Rc-4e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:37:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42180 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGSec-0002sq-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58026 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGSeS-0002sH-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGSeR-0005mJ-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:36:59 -0500 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:57589) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGSeP-0005lY-Kc; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A7A2AF543; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:36:54 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143622AF542; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:36:54 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1136B3FA04CA; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:36:54 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D3BA311EF63; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:39:05 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132542 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > If committing configure alone is all we need to avoid the problem, we > could decide to do that, philosophical and atom-splitting issues > notwithstanding. No, I'm saying that the design of bzr doesn't permit that. > Alternatively, "bzr revert configure" before committing the merges > should also do. As long as the Makefile knows to update configure, you're OK until somebody with a different version of autoconf reports a bug. Or somebody with *no* autoconf decides to build, and gets stopped before they get started even though they've got a perfectly good configure.