Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:10:57 +0200

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Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> writes:

>> Would some of them be useful for Emacs upstream (i.e. for a new release
>> of Emacs 24)?
>
>> From what I can tell, these are backports from newer Emacs releases that
>> ensure that old Emacses still work with new systems.
>
> Not all of these patches are backports. Let's go through a more recent
> example, the Gentoo patchset for Emacs 29.4:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-patches.git/tree/emacs/29.4

I didn’t want to imply that all patches for all Emacs versions are
backports. Just that those in 24.5 would be safe to merge quickly,
because they’ve already been reviewed by upstream.

I’ve been a Gentoo user for many years (until power failed halfways into
an update and I spent three days recovering my system which is why I
switched to Guix) and still like it a lot. I think it’s a real gift to
FLOSS.

Best wishes,
Arne
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