Re: “bug: Nothing closed while a line context remains” with Texinfo 7.0.3

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 05:59:31PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> 
> [CC += Patrice as the author of the original patch]
> 
> Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me> writes:
> 
> > To my untrained-to-the-parser eyes, it seems like the parser is trying
> > to parse @end as part of @item and getting confused (whereas the
> > unaffected version parses @item first, with no argument, and then @end).
> >
> > I'll try to bisect and come up with a fix.  Everyone should feel free to
> > beat me to it, though.
> 
> It appears that b225268a2ecdc58a06faa73c629ae1810942989f fixed this
> issue on master.

Thanks for tracking it down.

I am not going to try to understand the patch and decide whether
it is correct for the release branch.  In general, there may have
been other changes on the master branch that this patch relied on.

I think we should only include this patch if:

* Patrice thinks it is okay for the release branch; and
* The bug is important enough to fix in a bug-fix release, when balanced
  against the complexity of the change and the risk of introducing further
  bugs (which I doubt).

Distributors (like Debian) would always be free to include the patch
if they wanted to.