Follow-up Comment #10, bug #67693 (group groff):

At 2025-12-13T13:26:09-0500, Dave wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #9, bug #67693 (group groff):
>
> I did stare at the descriptions of both Invalid and Rejected for a
> couple minutes before deciding which to settle on.  I ultimately chose
> based on comment #3, specifically the "I am unwilling..." paragraph,
> but I still didn't feel strongly about it.

I think the rest of the sentence supplies useful context.

>> I am unwilling to undertake a revision of this point--if you
>> will--except alongside much more sigificant changes to the document
>> that substanially alter its creditable authorship.

Reading through my litotes there, this actually says I'm _willing_ to
undertake the revision, but _only_ in conjunction with a more serious
editorial revision.  I don't think the issue reported is worth fixing to
make "git grep 'point size'" not match anything, which seems to me to
approximate Bjarni's concern; such would be in keeping with his
preoccupation with compiler warnings and other diagnostics, frequently
accompanied by a dearth of concern over intended or actual program
behavior.  (What would Edsger Dijkstra say?)

> I did not consider Unreproducible, on the grounds that all that is
> needed to "reproduce" the reported issue is reading or grepping the
> pertinent documentation.  We all agree the contested wording _exists_,
> which is sufficient to reproduce the complaint.  The question was on
> whether and how to address it, which struck me as Invalid or Rejected
> territory.
>
> But I care about this a lot less than is implied by my writing the
> above two paragraphs.

I think Bjarni has a predilection for raising issues that draw celestial
ghosts into performing a close-quarters fandango on the proverbial blunt
end of a handheld garment alteration apparatus.



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