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Re: Emacs 21.4a-1



On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:25:42PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>:

> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:59:28AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > Emacs 21.4a-1 has been built in all architectures. It is basically 21.3
> > > plus the security patch which was applied in 21.3+1-9, a fix for
> > > a seriaous bug in debian/rules preventing from building in some cases,
> > > as well as usual bugfixes.

> > > I think it can safely enter testing.

> > It already has.

> The reason for my mail is that I thought new upstream releases
> were not allowed.

New upstream versions are discouraged; but we are not in a freeze.  This
particular emacs build includes security fixes we've been waiting on for a
while.

> > $ grep-excuses emacs21
> > emacs21 (21.3+1-8 to 21.4a-1)
> >     Maintainer: Rob Browning
> >     2 days old (needed 2 days)
> >     Valid candidate

> 2 days only? Urgency was set to medium though.

One or more previous versions were set to high; urgency is cumulative until
the package reaches testing.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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