Re: Emacs 24.5 second release candidate

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 08:22:50PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 16:12:56 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >     address@hidden

> > > Do you have an estimation of how much time you will need?

> > Perhaps this evening, perhaps tomorrow morning.  It's one of these nasty
> > little bugs which looks totally wierd and random until one stumbles upon
> > the cause, after which it takes 2 minutes to fix.

> > > Also, was this bug caused by a recent commit, and if so, which one?

> > No, I don't think it was.  I think it was "unmasked" by a recent bug
> > "fix", d69e9f1c24f37f36af33b0468c5a4e100dbb09b6 from 2015-02-01.  Oleh
> > Krehel, the OP of the pertinent bug #20245, says that with that change
> > reversed, the bug symptoms don't manifest themselves.  I haven't checked
> > this yet, but it sounds plausible.  That fix is actually incomplete,
> > requiring Monday/yesterday's fix to make it complete.

> > I'm beginning to come round to the view that perhaps it might be best
> > just to take d69e9f1c24f37f36af33b0468c5a4e100dbb09b6 out of Emacs 24.5,
> > as Oleh Krehel has explicitly suggested.

> Sounds plausible.  Please share your opinions after you study the
> issue.

OK.  Will do.  I'm hard at at, and making some progress.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).