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25.1; Wrong Emacs version for Emacs 25.1.2 (?)

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 25548 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25548: 25.1; Wrong Emacs version for Emacs 25.1.2 (?)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:10:05 -0500

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:
> (To be sure, I've downloaded the zip file twice now, and extracted it.)
>
> I got it from here: http://gnu.mirrors.pair.com/gnu/emacs/windows/
>
> This is the zip file I picked up:
>
> emacs-25.1-2-x86_64-w64-mingw32.zip     29-Nov-2016 14:12   91M
>
> But when I open Emacs and use M-x emacs-version it tells me that it is
> Emacs 21.1.1.  And you can see that below, as well.
>
> What gives?  Is this correct or a bug?  How are users supposed to
> understand the version numbering - is this 25.1.1 or 25.1.2 or something
> else?

It's 25.1-2, that is a second release of version 25.1. The first one
was compiled without optimization.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-11/msg00293.html

>
> And if this is not 25.1.2, where can users get 25.1.2?
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2016-11-15
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
>  `configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2
>  -static -g3''
>
>
>

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