Subject: RE: bug#34678: 26.1; (elisp) `Minor Mode Conventions'

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:51:01 -0800 (PST)

> > > I don't see why: cross-references don't have to be symmetrical.
> >
> > Did someone say that cross-references have to be
> > symmetrical?
> >
> > > We refer to another node for details of something mentioned in
> > > passage, but that other node doesn't have to provide a
> > > cross-reference back.
> >
> > Did someone say that it had to?
> 
> You went a long way towards saying that, yes.  How else
> to interpret your amplification of the original report?

Maybe read what I write, instead of reading
between the lines?

"It also wouldn't hurt to..." and "Perhaps add a
mention..." are nothing like claiming that a cross
reference (let alone every such) from A to B _must_
be accompanied by a cross reference from B to A.

That's a straw man - no one (except you) mentioned
such a rule.