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

[Florian Weimer]

* 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).

If it's about better errors for invalid input, then it doesn't seem very
important to b ackport, especially if output generation fails anyway.
(Sorry, I didn't quite understand the nature of the issue; the minimized
reproducer does look invalid to me.)

Thanks,
Florian