Re: emacs-29 82d6bb66fea 4/5: Update HISTORY and ChangeLog.4

[Michael Albinus]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

Hi Ulrich,

>>> Could the entry at least be changed to emacs-28.3-rc1? Mentioning a
>>> release that never happened is highly misleading.
>
>> We have been mentioning that for the last 6 months, including in 3
>> pretest tarballs.
>
> I don't see how this would make it correct.
>
> IMHO the entry should either be dropped, or changed to 28.3-rc1.

I understand Eli's point. If everything goes well, all files tagged as
emacs-29.1-rc1 will be tagged emacs-29.1 in a few days, and that's the
release. And it isn't that bad as it looks. People reading the HISTORY
file see entries for Emacs 28.3 and 29.1. Chances are good they decide
for the latter.1.

What about this compromise: we change HISTORY in the emacs-29 branch. If
there is a need for an RC2, this change will be part of it. Otherwise,
it will appear with Emacs 29.2.

> In the latter case, maybe it should also include a short explanation
> like "Emacs 28.3 was not released because of ${REASON}."

I don't know any good wording for ${REASON}, so we shouldn't add a
reason.

Best regards, Michael.