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Re:
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>
> > Mark,
>
> > Could we get an exemption from the freeze rules for low-risk,
> > runtime only libgcj fixes as determined by the libgcj maintainers?
>
> I don't think we want to do that.
>
> First, we're close to a release. We've been waiting on one fix since
> Friday, and Jeff Law has promised to fix it today.
>
> Second, the whole point of freezes is to ensure stability. We're
> going to RC3 on this release because we've found bad problems in RC1
> and RC2. If a change were to be checked in, for whatever reason,
> happens to break something, then we need an RC4, and everybody loses.
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