Re: Heads-up: Emacs 26.1 RC1

[Phillip Lord]

On Tue, March 20, 2018 7:05 am, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:11:08 -0400
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, John Wiegley <address@hidden>, Emacs
>> developers <address@hidden>
>>
>>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30745
>>>
>>>
>>> Probably not worth delaying for, as there is no fix and it's relative
>>>  small impact, but I thought to mention it.
>>
>> I doubt it's fixable in a way that would be safe for emacs-26 (I mean,
>> apart from reverting the fix for Bug#24402, but I think that would not be
>> a good trade).
>
> I agree.  Besides, this is about ERT, so fixing it is not crucial.


Also agreed, I fear, although bugs in ERT are unfortunate if you are using
ERT as the basis for bisection. Still, it has been on this branch for a
while now and is on master, so I guess we are already in the situation.