From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:30:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83egbkrfez.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83oaaquvif.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457461881 14402 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 18:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21998@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 19:31:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adMPV-0003P9-IS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:31:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMPU-0006bz-UQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMPR-0006bs-Br for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMPO-0003gt-2j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:31:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMPN-0003gp-Vd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:31:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adMPN-0005YI-Od for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:31:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:31:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21998 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21998-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21998.145746182121291 (code B ref 21998); Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:31:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21998) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Mar 2016 18:30:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39981 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adMOi-0005XL-NX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37297) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adMOh-0005X7-Lc for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMOY-0003as-TE for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMOY-0003ao-QX for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3012 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adMOR-0005Qk-CN; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:30:03 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:23:20 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114591 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: rgm@gnu.org, 21998@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:23:20 -0500 > > > > In concrete terms, what is the problem with these mistakes? > > > The mistakes are not being corrected. > > If some people don't correct some mistakes, that is unfortunate, > but the existence of the file ChangeLog does no harm in that case. > It merely provides an opportunity that was missed. > The file imposes no extra work when people leave mistakes uncorrected. > > When some mistakes do get corrected, then the file does good. > > Moreover someone else who notices the mistake could correct it later. I agree, but you seem to assume that ChangeLog files are kept in the repository. If they were, there wouldn't be a problem. They aren't; they are generated from Git log. And mistakes in Git log cannot be fixed.