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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.
- bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/04/12
- bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/13
- bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/04/13
- bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/13
- bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing., Glenn Morris, 2018/04/13
- bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing.,
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