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@@ -444,6 +444,10 @@ interesting and understandable.
Present and imperative tense: not past.
+ If a given changes stanza showed up in a different release (e.g.
+ maint-0.2.1), be sure to make the stanzas identical (so people can
+ distinguish if these are the same change).
+
2.5) Merge them in.
2.6) Clean everything one last time.