I'd strongly encourage backporting, if accepted on 2.x branch. The APnnnnn code exists to find guidance through web, email archives and forum searches. Keeping these consistent between 2.4 and 2.next is crucial.
It also ensures further backports apply without a host of future conflicts. Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]> wrote: >Le 19/07/2014 22:44, William A. Rowe Jr. a écrit : >> >> If it violates 80 col formatting style rule, absolutely do not shift >> the APLOGNO macro to the first line. >> >Sure. > >Moreover, when submitting patches, I'll take care to only propose things >that can be backported easily. >Changes relying on other changes, not backported yet, will either be >submitted as individual patches or will remain in my tree. >Same for changes that could generate conflict when merging other >changes, should they be backported one day. > >Best regards, >CJ
