branching in packages?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Ilya" == Ilya N Golubev <gin at mo.msk.ru> writes:

    Ilya> Often the only thing read after upstream cvs update is new
    Ilya> change log text.  Better put this notice in change log.

Semantic content: "I don't feel like reading the patch discussion, so
put information that belongs with the patch discussion in text that I
do read."  Deserves no response.

And elsewhere:

    Ilya> My experience is that I will just end up with the same
    Ilya> broken version promoted to stable and causing the same
    Ilya> grief.

That's always a risk.  There's nothing (that involves reasonable
levels of effort) we can do about that risk and still put new code
into circulation.  You can't have both new code and stability---and
that's your choice to make.  XEmacs does not force you to upgrade
packages.

I think it's time to stop running in circles.  Let's end this thread
here.

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