From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in the elpa branch Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:46:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ipofdbka.fsf@gmx.de> <87r533mxtq.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317038723 12761 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2011 12:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:05:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 26 14:05:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R89vz-0005iz-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R89vy-00007j-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R89vr-00007Z-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R89vq-0007Dw-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R89vp-0007Do-Uf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R89vo-0005eP-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:05:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cXdKeEinORO+p7aSuRtvCqFSJfo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144302 Archived-At: on Mon Sep 26 2011, Julien Danjou wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26 2011, Michael Albinus wrote: > >> | revno: 131 >> | committer: Stefan Monnier >> | branch nick: elpa >> | timestamp: Sun 2011-09-25 21:33:06 -0400 >> | message: >> | Remove ChangeLogs; use "bzr log" instead >> >> Is this necessary? I find the ChangeLogs helpful, especially for the >> debbugs package which is still actively developped. > > FTR, I don't know if it's necessary, but Changelogs are just duplication > of information, so I'm on Stefan side on this one. :) ChangeLogs that are just duplication of information are useless, but not all ChangeLogs are like that. Some maintainers use ChangeLogs to highlight out the changes that they think are relevant to their users. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com