diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 168d8d70..2c2bb836 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-2023-09-03  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
-
-        * Bug fix: with --pages, if one of the external files had warnings
-        but the main file did not, the warning was previously not taken
-        into consideration when determining the exit status.
-
 2023-09-02  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
         * Bug fix from M. Holger: allow fix-qdf to read from pipe. Fixes #1010.
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc
index adce2358..b8ae7787 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc
@@ -2561,11 +2561,6 @@ QPDFJob::handlePageSpecs(QPDF& pdf, std::vector<std::unique_ptr<QPDF>>& page_hea
             }
         }
     }
-    for (auto const& p: page_spec_qpdfs) {
-        if (!p.second->getWarnings().empty()) {
-            m->warnings = true;
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/page-errors.test b/qpdf/qtest/page-errors.test
index 3f14f24e..60894f96 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/page-errors.test
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/page-errors.test
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ $td->runtest("handle page no with contents",
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 $td->runtest("handle page with missing MediaBox",
              {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --static-id --empty --pages page-no-content.pdf -- out.pdf"},
-             {$td->FILE => "page-missing-mediabox.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 3},
+             {$td->FILE => "page-missing-mediabox.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 $td->runtest("check output",
              {$td->FILE => "out.pdf"},
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/page-missing-mediabox.out b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/page-missing-mediabox.out
index 91e85707..9db62ed6 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/page-missing-mediabox.out
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/page-missing-mediabox.out
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 WARNING: page-no-content.pdf, object 4 0 at offset 288: kid 1 (from 0) MediaBox is undefined; setting to letter / ANSI A
-qpdf: operation succeeded with warnings; resulting file may have some problems