failure of policy

[Mark Linimon]

> But you're right, this is not the way that it is supposed to work.  Please
> accept my apologies, and we'll look at the code.

Well, this looks to have been a combination of two human errors (on that
particular PR), which the code really doesn't know how to deal with.  But
after looking at it, I'm not too sure what we could have done differently.

So please folks, "let's be careful out there" as the old US TV show said,
and respect the maintainers' prerogatives.  Thanks.

mcl