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   >     PS. It's funny how people often switch to the past tense when
   >     writing certain ChangeLog entries (eg: "rename", "move").
   >
   > I have always used "deleted" and "renamed", past tense.

   I could have sworn there was a GNU or Emacs standard that said
   "write changelog entries in the present tense", but now that I look
   I can't find it. :(

I seem to recall something similar, but neither the GNU Coding
Standards nor the much pickier GNITS standards say anything about it!