From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24062: Temporary NEWS markup still in RC Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:49:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <991t2ihnzh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87eg5hn6vr.fsf@petton.fr> <87vayswxek.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472017877 10652 195.159.176.226 (24 Aug 2016 05:51:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:51:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: 24062@debbugs.gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 07:51:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1bcR5k-0002Kz-Kd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:51:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR5h-0006n7-Rn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35479) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR5b-0006n0-MW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR5a-0001nv-SV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR5a-0001nr-Ov for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR5a-0001Ah-JN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24062 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 24062-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24062.14720178094436 (code B ref 24062); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24062) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Aug 2016 05:50:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38601 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR4i-00019U-W5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44266) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR4h-00019J-WF for 24062@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR4b-0001XO-SU for 24062@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR4V-0001SY-8c; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bcR4T-0001e2-42; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:49:53 -0400 X-Spook: Uzbekistan AK-47 Mossad COSCO Cohiba Crowell H5N1 Stuck X-Ran: B^U!"1%Z_AC$D!A%1Xf.|Ju'64YP2`vl*ZUVZ}/?R!G_`P%E1A6JAZJY"`i5&=]q*[,aQh X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87vayswxek.fsf@petton.fr> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:01:23 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:122574 Archived-At: Nicolas Petton wrote: >> Now AFAICS there is no "25.1 released" ChangeLog entry at all. One could >> be added by untarring, editing that one file, and tarring up again. But >> perhaps no-one wants/needs it. > > Indeed, and we said that we would not modify tarballs in place. I'll do > it for the next RC or release. I did not mean modify a tarfile in place. I meant what is written in make-tarball: If you need to change only a file(s) that cannot possibly affect the build (README, ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.) then rather than doing an entirely new build, it is better to unpack the existing tarfile, modify the file(s), and tar it back up again. Never replace an existing tarfile! Ie, don't do a make bootstrap, because that is a more error-prone process and will change every elc file. This way, you won't need yet another RC for trivia like this. You won't be replacing the alpha.gnu tarfile in place, you will just be uploading a (very slightly) different one to ftp.gnu.org. Ie, the final release will be (trivially) different to the last RC.