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bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:01:58 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <7777@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:44:50 -0800
>
> 1. We're telling users that _every_ value should be different from what
> _every_
> value was supposed to be before. That's a change for users that they should be
> made aware of, even if such a "should" is in fact vacuous wrt the difference.
It's not a change, it's a doc fix. The doc string is now more
helpful.
> 2. We should tell users, in NEWS, that they do _not_ in fact need to change
> existing values that respected the old rule - in spite of the changed rule.
> They do _not_ need to swap \\` for ^. That is not necessarily obvious to
> users.
We don't put in NEWS changes that affect only doc strings.
How about if we change the doc string to not sound like a stringent
requirement, but rather as a "note"?
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Andreas Schwab, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Sean Sieger, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/03
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/07
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/08
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Drew Adams, 2011/01/08
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/08
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/13
- bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/28