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On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 07:57 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> What types of changes are unacceptable?

It's a mixed bag.

Some maintainers reject all "style/whitespace changes".
Some maintainers reject global consistency patches like
int -> bool conversions.
Some maintainers reject literal -> #define changes like
1 -> true and 0 -> false for booleans.

Some of those maintainers are IMO misguided.