E.4.PFIP:2 - Problem

Framework integration has two independent failure modes.

First, an accepted source contribution may never reach the candidate, or it may reach the wrong public entry or consumer. Second, the candidate may contain every accepted addition while silently losing useful predecessor content that no accepted decision changed. The source-to-candidate comparison can detect the first failure and cannot answer the second.

Publication plurality makes the second failure harder to see:

• one framework edition can be exposed through a sequential monolith, extracted pattern texts, reader-entry and Preface forms, cards, diagrams, or retrieval forms;
• two forms can serve the same broad use without being versions of one another;
• a text diff can expose changed sentences but not a lost diagram relation, card field, retrieval cue, or admitted operation;
• splitting or merging forms can make a predecessor form disappear even though its content still needs a disposition; and
• a carrier can remain byte-identical while its selected edition, bounded use, or expression relation changes.

The recurring mistake is to use one visible proxy — source parity, build success, carrier continuity, heading coverage, or textual similarity — as proof that the complete predecessor publication survived.