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Re: At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says "For older news, see the
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says "For older news, see the file OOOONEWS". |
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:25:45 +0200 (IST) |
On 23 Jan 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says
> "For older news, see the file OOOONEWS".
This is fixed already.
> 8 lines matching "199\\|2000\\|release" in buffer NEWS.
> 1:GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 25 May 2000
> 2:Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> 8:* Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes
> 27:* Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one user-visible change
> 32:* Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
> 4170:* Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
> 4268:previously released version, except in the message composition area.
> 4948:Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> one can see that many releases were released with only a "25 May
> 2000"... next time use ChangeLog mode or something to give at least one
> date per release for the historian / archeologist.
The release date of each version is in the ChangeLog files, which see
(search for "Version .* released"). NEWS is not for historians;
ChangeLog's are.