On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:21:02PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > Andre, > > Could you please apply this patch to branch?
I would oppose such a move. Only bugfixes to branch. This is ordinary development. > I understand that other changes may make > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> svn merge -c $MYPATCHNUM > svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk > more difficult, but this one makes it impossible. At least with the > patch, you'd get conflicted files you could modify. Without it, you get > nothing helpful. I ask this as a frequent bug-fixer. I understand the problem this causes for backporting changes, and I also understand that you are one of the people that suffer more than others. But the whole idea of stable/devel is to keep stable stable and do not allow large changes there. So even if my patches are intended not to change anything visible there's no guarantee that they don't. Andre'