From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:59:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <73766b120502070245671f77ee@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107777769 19936 80.91.229.2 (7 Feb 2005 12:02:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 13:02:49 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy7bB-00011o-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:02:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy7pI-0006wa-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy7nh-0006SF-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy7nb-0006OR-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy7na-0006Cp-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cy7Xy-0003O5-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:59:19 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cy7Uj-0005WI-F3; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:55:58 -0500 Original-To: Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia In-Reply-To: <73766b120502070245671f77ee@mail.gmail.com> (Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:45:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32994 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32994 Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia writes: > It seems that, (I supposse) due some error, a emacs 21.4 is in > ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/. > > The file seems like a 21.3 version, but some sites (like distrowatch) > that uses script to check latest versions are reporting 21.4 as out. > > Am I wrong? Yes, you are. according to the diffs, we have diff -rc2 emacs-21.3/README emacs-21.4/README *** emacs-21.3/README Tue Mar 18 10:20:35 2003 --- emacs-21.4/README Wed Feb 2 02:34:12 2005 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! This directory tree holds version 21.3 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, ! customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. =20=20 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report --- 1,7 ---- ! This directory tree holds version 21.4 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, ! customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This release ! was made to fix a security bug, so most directories have no changes ! from 21.3. The documentation still identifies the version as 21.3, ! since it has not been altered. =20=20 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report =20=20 diff -rc2 emacs-21.3/lib-src/ChangeLog emacs-21.4/lib-src/ChangeLog *** emacs-21.3/lib-src/ChangeLog Tue Mar 18 10:15:30 2003 --- emacs-21.4/lib-src/ChangeLog Sun Feb 6 04:09:17 2005 *************** *** 1,2 **** --- 1,8 ---- + 2005-02-06 Richard M. Stallman +=20 + * Version 21.4 released. +=20 + * movemail.c (popmail): Fix call to `error'. +=20 2003-03-18 Francesco Potort=EC =20=20 diff -rc2 emacs-21.3/lib-src/movemail.c emacs-21.4/lib-src/movemail.c *** emacs-21.3/lib-src/movemail.c Fri Feb 15 07:07:14 2002 --- emacs-21.4/lib-src/movemail.c Wed Feb 2 02:31:17 2005 *************** *** 788,792 **** if (pop_retr (server, i, mbf) !=3D OK) { ! error (Errmsg, 0, 0); close (mbfi); return (1); --- 788,792 ---- if (pop_retr (server, i, mbf) !=3D OK) { ! error ("%s", Errmsg, 0); close (mbfi); return (1); That's pretty much it. Richard, you should have asked anybody about this. After long and painful discussions on this list, we had agreed that the new version of Emacs with the changes of years in it will be called 21.4. People have relied on it in announcements ("to be expected in Emacs-21.4"). There was a long discussion about whether the next big release should be called 22.0 and finally we agreed that 21.4 it would be. So this bug fix release should have been called 21.3.1 or 21.3-b or whatever. I could just cry. Now, AGAIN, I have a whole slew of documentation, help files, announcements and stuff like that rendered false and junk and misleading. This was the _exact_ reason that it was proposed that 22.0 would become the next big version number, and it was turned down finally by everybody agreeing that we'd make it 21.4 instead. And now this. I can't say how much hairtearing this will mean. Is there any chance that we get this changed to 21.3.1 or 21.3-b or something like that _before_ the news spreads? Please, Richard? --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum