GNU bug report logs - #44211
26.3; Repeated `` and '' in Info (eintr)`GNU Free Documentation License'

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Message #33 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 44211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#44211: 26.3; Repeated `` and '' in Info
 (eintr)`GNU Free Documentation License'
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:18:30 -0600

tags 44211 wontfix notabug
close 44211 28.1
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
>> CC: "44211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <44211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:41:55 +0000
>>
>> I just checked, with emacs -Q, in 27.1.
>>
>> Go to node GNU Free Documentation License.
>> Scroll to the bottom of the node, or search
>> for Addendum.
>>
>> The indented block of text after "just after
>> the title page" has this as its last sentence:
>>
>>  A copy of the license is included in the section
>>  entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
>>
>> As that block is a quotation, perhaps this is
>> intended and needed, which is why I said in the
>> bug report that I don't know whether there's a
>> bug here.
>
> That's the GNU FDL, we cannot change even a comma there.

OK.  This is hardly worth this much time and energy in any case.

I've added the tags wontfix and notabug, so anyone can pick their
favourite.  I'm consequently closing this bug.

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