Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution]

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If this bug is indeed deemed
> urgent by the community, it will be fixed very soon, and in that case
> blocking the next release, which will not happen tomorrow or the next
> week, is meaningless.  OTOH, if the bug will remain unfixed till we
> are ready to release Emacs 26.1, in, like, 6 months, then it means
> fixing it is not deemed important, and blocking the release for it
> makes no sense.

A similar argument could be applied to any blocking bug, so why bother to mark 
any bug as blocking?

I find value in having even easily-fixed bugs marked as blocking, if the bugs 
are important (as this one surely is).