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Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out!


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out!
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:25:28 +0200

> From: Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:16:49 +0100
> Cc: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>, Glenn Morris <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  > That, and the HISTORY file contains a release date for 26.2 as well.
> 
>  It's the same problem.  Suppose we update HISTORY to the date of RC1.
>  If RC1 becomes Emacs 26.2, the date in HISTORY is correct; otherwise
>  we will commit a modified HISTORY with the release of the next RC.
> 
> Just a note: with my proposal there is always a difference between 26.2-rc1 
> and 26.2 (the names), so the
> history date would change as well.

If there's a difference, then it isn't an RC.  A Release Candidate
means that if no significant problems are reported, the RC _becomes_
the official release, by just renaming the tarball without changing
its contents.

What you propose would be appropriate for a pretest, not for an RC.



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