At this point, I think we're ready to proceed if the release team approves.
The short answer is that there doesn't appear to be much difficulty, much risk, or much work required. We'd need to change a few package dependencies and change emacs-defaults to pull in emacs25 instead of emacs24. Summary of our findings: https://wiki.debian.org/Emacs25InStretch Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4