Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> These tarballs will be mostly the same, as they will only differ by
>> bugfixes. So, testing different "bugfix" tarball versions will only risk 
>> differing via some bugs being already fixed in newer versions. The
>> worst-case scenario is when some bugfix introduces another bug, but
>> AFAIK it is already ensured that such things almost never happen.
>> 
>> So, I do not think that having multiple bugfix versions around will pose
>> a significant problem.
>
> I think you have a very naïve view of the effect of bugfixes in Emacs.
> What you think doesn't happen actually happens all the time.

Do you mean that one fix introducing new bugs is rather common? If so, I
agree that bugfix releases will not be a good idea.

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