However, I am optimistic that I will be able to make matching changes upstream.
Sorry, but for myself, I think it is a terrible waste of time to be thinking about this for fdl*.texi. The blank lines don't hurt anything and you're not supposed to be modifying those files, so can't we just leave them alone? Argh. As for these files: >> * doc/Copyright/assign.translation.manual: Remove empty lines at EOF. >> * doc/Copyright/request-assign.future: Likewise. >> * doc/Copyright/request-disclaim.changes: Likewise. The originals of those files live on some inaccessible FSF machine somewhere, as far as I know. You're not really going to take up Donald's time with such a thing, are you? Painfully, karl