From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:42:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87tw07kikp.fsf@gnu.org> <4431.25452.741228.22968@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <22969.34976.706874.350971@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505353393 1844 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2017 01:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 01:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 03:43:08 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 1dsJBM-0000NL-HJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 03:43:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsJBT-0007jc-LJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsJBB-0007hK-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsJBA-0000fj-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsJAy-0000Hn-Hz; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dsJAx-0006ho-V6; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:42:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <22969.34976.706874.350971@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:36:00 +0200) 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:218249 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Please don't. That would break the download for distros who rely on > pristine upstream sources and apply separate patches. For example, > Gentoo still has packages app-editors/emacs-23.4-r16 and > app-editors/emacs-24.5-r4 (of course, both *with* the fix for > enriched-mode). So how do we inform people not to download the broken versions? If Gentoo will have a patch to fix that version, can't the same patch put in the new file name of that version? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.