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Re: Apply "pending" patches
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Apply "pending" patches |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:04:05 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
> Thanks for reminding us. I'd like to apply the pending
> integer-overflow patch <http://debbugs.gnu.org/9874#37> but have not
> yet done so because when Stefan announced the emacs-24 branch, he
> wrote "please refrain from installing pervasive changes" into the
> trunk. I wasn't sure whether the integer-overflow patch counts as a
> pervasive change: although it affects only files under src/* it does
> affects several dozen of them.
Yes, it's clearly on the pervasive side, so if you could hold on to it
until after the release, it would be appreciated.
> Since Chong recently installed into the trunk a patch (bzr 107813)
> that affects many more files than the integer-overflow patch, perhaps
> the pervasive-change restriction doesn't simply mean "a change that
> affects a lot of files".
His changes also count as pervasive in my book, indeed, so I'd have
preferred to wait until after the release to install it. Oh well!
Stefan