From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog.3 in master Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 19:23:02 +0200 Message-ID: <838trqibd5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d1h2ifat.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481217821 26892 195.159.176.226 (8 Dec 2016 17:23:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 08 18:23:37 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cF2Pw-0006U6-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:23:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cF2Q0-0004SV-VY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cF2P2-0004R4-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cF2Oy-000270-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cF2Oy-00026w-Ra; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2523 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cF2Ox-0004By-SN; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:22:36 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 8 Dec 2016 08:18:00 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210140 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 08:18:00 -0800 > > On 12/08/2016 07:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > As for updating the file in the repository, it really is necessary > > when a release is tarred. So perhaps we don't need to do this on > > master, only on the release branch? > > That would simplify maintenance, yes. In that case, I suppose I should > remove ChangeLog.3 in master? Yes, but let's wait for a couple of days to give others a chance to comment on this. Thanks. P.S. If making a tarball from master (e.g., some GNU/Linux distribution might want to do that) will require some extra steps due to removal of the ChangeLog, we should probably update admin/make-tarball.txt accordingly, when we remove the file.