Re: The emacs-31 branch during the next release cycle

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:20:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> No, no, I'm really talking about regressions introduced by the bug-fix
>> patches installed in `emacs-NN`.  IOW about the problems that show up
>> when what we seemed like a "safe bug-fix" isn't.
>
> Then I don't think I understand what you are saying.  If those
> regressions are reported while emacs-NN is still active, we will
> first try to fix them there.

I'm saying they will tend to not be noticed because too few people run
the code from that branch (after the NN.1 release), which means we have
to be more conservative when trying to estimate whether a bug-fix is
safe enough.


=== Stefan