Re: Emacs 21.4a-1

[Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr>]

Quoting Steve Langasek

> > 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.

Alright.

> > > $ 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.

This is very informative. I didn't know that. Thank you very much.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant