sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: C'mon! You *do* know what I mean. If you tell Joe "this is a new patch level for 21.0". Joe will understand "this is a new release with some bug fixes". Of course nothing holds us to that requirement, except the common sense people give to the notion of patch level. Now if you start claiming a new patch level is released, and the options file has changed syntax, expect to be flamed. That's exactly why the notions of feature/code freeze exist, and why it's good to firmly adhere to this policy regarding releases[1]. In real life, nothing is all white or all black. You're never completely sure that you wont introduce a new bug by fixing another one. However, strongly filtering the patches (like Tomo's) for 21.1 is the way to limit the risk. Footnotes: [1] that's also why it'd be good to have more frequent minor releases. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19