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Re: [PATCH] manual: Remove warning in the documentation of the abort function
On 10/8/19 5:40 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> You said repeatedly that you are still in charge in the GNU project, and
>> that GNU is not a democracy. So this should really be simple. Just say
>> you want the warning gone, and it will be gone. Or you tell us you want
>> to keep it.
>
> And if Richard wants it kept, I consider that just a previous maintainer's
> view to be considered by the maintainers. This is not a difficult
> question about the exact boundaries of when it is appropriate for GNU to
> intervene in decisions made by individual package maintainers; it's a case
> for which it's extremely clear-cut that it's properly within the scope of
> package maintainers to make the final decision and would be improper for
> GNU to attempt to overrule such a decision. The precise boundaries of
> appropriate intervention in individual packages may be worth considering
> elsewhere, but that's not relevant for this case.
I agree.
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Cheers,
Carlos.