>> No, no, I'm really talking about regressions introduced by the bug-fix >> patches installed in `emacs-NN`. IOW about the problems that show up >> when what we seemed like a "safe bug-fix" isn't. > > Then I don't think I understand what you are saying. If those > regressions are reported while emacs-NN is still active, we will > first try to fix them there.
I'm saying they will tend to not be noticed because too few people run the code from that branch (after the NN.1 release), which means we have to be more conservative when trying to estimate whether a bug-fix is safe enough. === Stefan

