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Re: Stop updating ChangeLog?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 22:32:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: Stop updating ChangeLog?
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Yao Qi wrote:
> Joseph,
> The format of ChangLog entry is out of the scope of this discussion.
> IMO, each project is free to choose whether to write changelog entry
> or not (either in commit log or ChangeLog file). Some GNU projects
I don't believe they are so free (yet). The current (and problematic) GCS
requirement, that I've been trying to get changed, is for ChangeLog files
in releases, using a particular format (which I don't think is a good
format since it forces description at the level of changed to individual
files and named entities therein, which closely duplicates the information
in the diffs themselves) - the projects may choose whether that's a
checked-in file or generated automatically.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com