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bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a descripti


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:45:44 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,  31140@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:36:44 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> OK, I've fixed it.  But there must be a time coming, fairly soon, when
> >> even doc fixes are no longer welcome.
> >
> > Why would documentation changes become unwelcome?
> 
> They might fail to build in some cases that aren't trivial to spot (eg
> with some specific makeinfo version; the manuals being prebuilt in
> tarfiles doesn't obviate this because many distributions seem to do
> bootstrap builds or builds from git tags); or they might cause problems
> with the pdf or html version, which isn't frequently checked.

With such simple changes, this is unlikely.

> And it creates work for the person making the release, who can't
> just release the release candidate, but has to make another one for
> frankly trivial reasons.

That ship has sailed already, because we have one code change on the
release branch which I considered important enough to have.

> In short, your interpretation of "release candidate" differs from
> mine.

We've established that already during the previous release, I don't
see why you needed to reiterate that.  But feel free to volunteer to
be the next maintainer, I will gladly step down that very moment,
because I think you are a much better candidate for that job.





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