Thank you!

... damn, that merge was actually wrong. The "deprecations" branch will be merged into main. No breaking changes should happen there.

But I do want to change the behavior for PyPDF2 2.0.0

But I do want to change the behavior for PyPDF2 2.0.0

@MartinThoma can you please clarify your thoughts?

I want to say that changing the default is not acceptable in PyPDF2 1.x, but I definitely want to have this change with PyPDF2 2.0.0 (I actually thought I had added it there already)

I have a nice idea! We leave the new strict=False default in the PdfMerger, but for users of the PdfFileMerger the default stays at strict=True. This way I don't need to make a major version bump while still being able to move into this direction :-) (with a notice in the changelog, of course :-) )

Here is what I meant: ba6a427