Re: [PATCH] automatically handle .xz suffix (XZ-compressed files), too

[Richard Stallman]

    >> This still hasn't made it into CVS. I think it would be short-sighted
    >> to omit XZ support from 23.1, and the patch looks safe to me.
    >
    > Thanks for speaking up.
    > I too was surprised by the lack of response,
    > considering I posted about this three times, and even Cc'd
    > the two maintainers explicitly once.
    >
    > Had it not been for the problems at savannah,
    > I would have gone ahead and committed about then.
    >
    > Barring any objection, I'll commit this on the trunk in a few hours

    Please go ahead and commit to the trunk, but it's too late for 23.1.

There is no need to be rigid in carrying out policies about what
changes to install.  To do a good job of maintaining Emacs doesn't
require acting like government bureaucrats.