Subject: Re: bug#37540: [PATCH] Wishlist: Allow edebug-specs to signal arbitrary error strings on syntax errors in macros.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 09:18:44 +0300

> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:34:16 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
> 
> Presumably when the emacs-27 branch comes into existence, the
> emacs-26 branch will be retired from active service.

It is actually de-facto retired already.  Making changes there that
are anything but emergency fixes just means more work for Glenn and
others, who do the merging, and has no useful purpose.