Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:30:25AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > > 43249 Y2K problem in timezone.el
> > >
> > > Seems to get fixed in the new version.
>
> > Yes, but... It's only fixed in the upcoming 20.5 which doesn't help
> > us if we're going to freeze before that's released. I asked the
> > upstream maintainers if it would be likely to be easy to just
> > backpatch that file in 20.4, but their initial response indicated that
> > that wouldn't be sufficient since there were quite a few other Y2K
> > issues in other files too. Given that, I'm hoping that 20.5 makes it
> > before we freeze.
>
> Did the upstream maintainers estimate when they will release 20.5 or
> not? I think, that I would be nice to include 20.5 in potato and not
> only 20.4.
The way Christian said this, it seems like we could then have both versions,
i.e. 20.4 *and* 20.5 of GNU Emacs, in the archive. Is that really true?
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