Reformulated proposal.

chapters/inheritance.tex

@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ \section{Redeclaration}\label{redeclaration}
 the right of the component; and thus can be redeclared in a consistent
 way.
 
-Having annotations on the \lstinline!redeclare! construct in a modifier is deprecated and the annotations have no effect.
+The presence of annotations on the \lstinline!redeclare! construct in a modifier is deprecated, but since none of the annotations in the specification ever had a meaning in this context it only impacts vendor-specific annotations.
 
 \begin{nonnormative}
 Note: The inheritance is from the original declaration. In most