Re: Robert J. Chassel reference in Intro to Emacs Lisp

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Following a suggestion off-list, I removed the cause of death (already present in the linked page).

Thank you for the updates. I installed the attached patches into the master 
branch; the 2nd one because the late Bob Chassell is no longer a maintainer.

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From afa21ee369e90960c8831169bea92374ecd255fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 11:02:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Bob Chassell passed away

* doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (About the Author): Update.
---
 doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 519decb1d0..09b6698722 100644
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -21858,14 +21858,17 @@ About the Author
 @end ifnottex
 
 @quotation
-Robert J. Chassell has worked with GNU Emacs since 1985.  He writes
-and edits, teaches Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and speaks throughout the
+Robert J. Chassell started working with GNU Emacs in 1985.  He wrote
+and edited, taught Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and spoke throughout the
 world on software freedom.  Chassell was a founding Director and
-Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  He is co-author of
-the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and has edited more than a dozen other
-books.  He graduated from Cambridge University, in England.  He has an
-abiding interest in social and economic history and flies his own
-airplane.
+Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  He was co-author of
+the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and edited more than a dozen other
+books.  He graduated from Cambridge University, in England.  He had an
+abiding interest in social and economic history and flew his own
+airplane.  He passed away on 30 June 2017.
+
+@uref{https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/goodbye-to-bob-chassell,
+"Goodbye to Bob Chassell"}
 @end quotation
 
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From 796ef86db75b75d8ac4be5440918fd0ad375084d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 11:05:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] * lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el: Chassell is no longer
 maintainer.

---
 lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el b/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el
index 4bfecb48b6..9ccc73ad48 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ;; Copyright (C) 1985-1986, 1988, 1990-1998, 2000-2019 Free Software
 ;; Foundation, Inc.
 
-;; Maintainer: Robert J. Chassell <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>
+;; Maintainer: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
 ;; Keywords: maint, tex, docs
 
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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