[emacs-common-ess/f14/master] (12 commits) ...Add patch to use ".r$" as regex in start start (workaround for problems with XEmacs misidentify Perl

[alexlan]

Summary of changes:

  1427711... Initialize branch F-12 for emacs-common-ess (*)
  4b4f2ac... Sync with devel branch: update to 5.5 (*)
  4a694f0... Fix typo that causes a failure to update the common directo (*)
  f9a3550... Initialize branch F-13 for emacs-common-ess (*)
  7cd00b8... - Update to upstream 5.8 (#544472). - Fixes problems with h (*)
  c2cf930... - Update to upstream 5.8 (#544472). - Fixes problems with h (*)
  3b245a7... - Update to upstream 5.11 (#594669) (*)
  ea5791d... - Update to upstream 5.11 (#594669) (*)
  76b756e... dist-git conversion (*)
  151da6f... dist-git conversion (*)
  e7e9259... Initial pseudo merge for dist-git setup (*)
  7b0a694... Add patch to use ".r$" as regex in start start (workaround  (*)

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