Subject: Re: bug#20484: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:59:43 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:32:08 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Maybe so, but I don't see any problem with that.  We just tried to
> > make the wait shorter, and see what happened.  We should try again in
> > few years, maybe the results will be better then.  Hopefully.
> 
> Waiting won't do anything. One should actively contact maintainers of
> affected packages. It's our fault, not theirs.

We already did.  "Waiting" here means wait until the old versions of
the shells die peacefully and people stop using them.