GNU bug report logs - #78843
Various vtable bug fixes and enhancements

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, krisbalintona <at> gmail.com, 78843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, adam <at> alphapapa.net, larsi <at> gnus.org, arstoffel <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#78843: Various vtable bug fixes and enhancements
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:41:56 +0300

> From: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:12:46 -0400
> Cc: 78843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, adam <at> alphapapa.net, sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 
> 	larsi <at> gnus.org, arstoffel <at> gmail.com, krisbalintona <at> gmail.com
> 
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  Is it really not feasible to have separate patches for each bugfix and
>  each enhancement (or coherent set of enhancements)?  What if we decide
>  to install just some of these changes -- you'd need to update the
>  entire large patch, instead of dropping a relatively small one and
>  leaving the others intact.
> 
> I hope we elect to adopt them all.  It would be much more work to tease them all out piecemeal and wouldn't
> really, in the end, produce a better vtable.

Please also consider the inherent difficulties in reviewing such a
large (4K lines!) patch.

> WRT quoting symbols, there are examples in the texinfo doc collection that suggest the convention is not
> enforced:

They are all bugs that need to be fixed.  Patches welcome.  "Not
enforced" would be a wrong conclusion from these omissions.

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