From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: debbugs.el revisited Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:48:37 +0800 Message-ID: <87mxgw2cm2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iprn6nic.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87aacy8i97.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <8739iq5k0c.fsf@gmx.de> <974o348tfp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309668548 13105 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2011 04:49:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 04:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 06:49:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdEc9-0002hD-L9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:49:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdEc8-0004JI-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdEbu-0004JD-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:48:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdEbu-0004cI-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:35244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdEbt-0004cD-U7; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so585738pzk.0 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:48:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=G3SZbqrZG38tEsfJIwOUyJzFKu6zlzSQ3fE8GNvzdnU=; b=NKNIHSBslgZl0bGqT1DjkLkEbjWS9MklC23JGZZvyc3qBkVpmqOR+2J8+DIT7oL/Fi G3K8o7jtFjvIyJ9SPaQwa34l7jP1Apkc9xTvQb9LF8z6bEoe2JM8yjH7bKzhjGe2V9Zw rv4KC8UvWrKEVbj02JEZ2ozmb1HppCRDAKnGI= Original-Received: by 10.68.52.4 with SMTP id p4mr5761727pbo.127.1309668524448; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.18.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u6sm3043367pbh.80.2011.07.02.21.48.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9780FB93; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:48:37 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <974o348tfp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:48:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141481 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > >> The version number is the version number the fix has been applied to? >> Then perhaps it could just default to sending over >> >> emacs-version >> => "24.0.50.6" >> >> if the user doesn't override it? > > I think that's a bad idea. The right number to use in that case would be > "24.1", ie the first _release_ in which something is fixed. "24.0.50.6", > or even "24.0.50" is a meaningless version number. It can be useful during pretesting to have the pretest version number in there, so users can know whether a bug is supposed to be fixed in the current pretest version or the next one. But the .50 version number is not useful, as it does not change over a long period.