Re: emacs-29 82d6bb66fea 4/5: Update HISTORY and ChangeLog.4

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
>> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:34:21 +0200
>> 
>> >>>>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> >> >  GNU Emacs 28.3 (2023-02-17) emacs-28.3
>> >> 
>> >> Emacs 28.3 has never been released. There's no tarball on ftp.gnu.org,
>> >> and in git we have only the tag emacs-28.3-rc1.
>> 
>> > Thanks, but this change was installed by Stefan Kangas in February, so
>> > it's too bad it is only now brought to attention.
>> 
>> > I think I will let it stay, as for now this is effectively part of our
>> > history, whether we want that or not.
>> 
>> Could the entry at least be changed to emacs-28.3-rc1? Mentioning a
>> release that never happened is highly misleading.

> We have been mentioning that for the last 6 months, including in 3
> pretest tarballs.

I don't see how this would make it correct.

IMHO the entry should either be dropped, or changed to 28.3-rc1. In the
latter case, maybe it should also include a short explanation like
"Emacs 28.3 was not released because of ${REASON}."