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I didn't realize that the previous behavior was buggy; I
thought that the current behavior was a side-effect.  The
2.5 behavior did cause a small problem in Docutils, but it's
already been fixed.  I just wanted to ensure that no
regression was creeping in to 2.5.

Thanks for the explanation!  Perhaps it could be added to
the docs in some form?

Marking the bug report closed.