Re: On the "next" packages, and packaging confusion.

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, I'm not a Guix maintainer, but just thought I would mention that, regarding 
Emacs:

- There is an official, distinct branch for the next release (in this case, 
Emacs 30)
- They do have official "pre-test" releases, in the year before the release, 
which in this case were 30.0.91 and 30.0.92.
- Before that, i.e., before the pre-test releases, it appeared that guix was 
camping on 30.0.50 (or was it 51)?. I was fine with that, because the important 
thing (to me) is that the guix package emacs-next could provides a package 
definition that I could use (with shell -D) to build any commit in the 30 
branch. I'm not sure, off-hand, how 30.0.50 was picked exactly.

So, for me at least, the important thing is that emacs-next is taken from the 
branch for the next release. And if it gets adjusted at the time the pre-tests 
are release, that is also nice.

-- 
Christopher Howard