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31.0.50; Default lexical-binding to t

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Message #138 received at 74145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, dancol <at> dancol.org,
 74145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74145: 31.0.50; Default lexical-binding to t
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:22:35 +0800

Hello,

On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 10:00pm GMT, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> However, nothing about this is specific to lexical-binding.  If we want
> to substantially improve the current situation, I believe that we need
> to start providing minimal support for older major versions.  If we had
> this in place, we could have backported this warning, as well as other
> important fixes, such as security patches that are now only available in
> the most recent version.  This would encourage distro maintainers to
> include this set of fixes in their point releases, with our official
> endorsement.  I can't speak for other maintainers, but I'm open to
> discussing this myself.

Yes, currently in Debian we only backport security fixes.
It would be cool to be able to backport more.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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