Almost all of them merge perfectly, with no problems what-so-ever. And the
merge conflicts, when they happen, are generally really trivial, and never
cause any subtle run-time bugs even if they were to happen.
So in that sense, I think both MAINTAINERS and the deprecation schedule
are totally uninteresting. Yes, they have merge conflicts. But those merge
conflicts are really really easy to handle.
Linus
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