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; * CONTRIBUTE: No cleanups on release branches, even in docs.

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@ -342,7 +342,9 @@ Documentation fixes (in doc strings, in manuals, in NEWS, and in
comments) should always go to the release branch, if the documentation
to be fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase.
Doc fixes are always considered "safe" -- even when a release branch
is in feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes.
is in feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes. However, this
rule is limited to fixing real problems in the documentation; cleanups
and stylistic changes are excluded.
When you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
master (e.g., because the code on master has changed a lot), you can