Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

[Stefan Monnier]

> What we propose is to maintain bugfix releases from stable
> releases.  This is exactly the kind of job we are doing with
> the Debian Emacs package: collecting bugfixes, backporting
> fixes from the trunk.
> Currently, bugs are only fixed in the trunk and Emacs users
> needs to wait for the next stable releases to see their bugs
> fixed.  Unfortunately, Emacs releases are quite rare and this is
> understandable because releasing is boring.

Actually, we already have "the RC branch" from which 21.2 and 21.3 came.
So I agree to the extent that "Debian patches" should be applied to the RC
branch of Emacs rather than just to the Debian Emacs package (assuming the
fixes are sufficiently clean, of course).


        Stefan