On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:51:49 -0400
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> wrote:

> On 15 August 2012 10:47, Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 15.08.2012 15:21, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >>
> >> So is this settled?
> >
> > Emacs 24 appears not to have been released upstream until less than three
> > weeks before the freeze.
> 
> So it's a done deal, then? Ancient Emacs in Debian for two more years
> unless you use backports?

I fail to see how a release which was considered current by upstream
only three weeks before the deadline for the freeze can be considered
ancient by anyone. It's not a lot of time to get a major upstream
version packaged and tested.

Backports exists to allow for packages which are updated at points
where there wasn't enough time to get the new version into the release.

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Neil Williams
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