From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:46:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83twkgrk8i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <83twkiteb3.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5utbxb.fsf@gnu.org> <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <1ceba0e3-b8a7-393d-ce41-213aee11b7f8@yandex.ru> <83si01rn0y.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457455563 3290 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 16:46:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 17:46:03 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1adKlk-00024l-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:46:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKlk-0008Np-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKlh-0008Ni-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKlg-0006SG-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKlg-0006SC-3C; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2909 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adKlf-00040g-Fu; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:45:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:14:14 -0500) 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: 2.1.14 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:201175 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:14:14 -0500 > > > Yes, a few of us don't need any corrections. But enough of us do, and > > that's where the problem lies. It is that problem that we need to > > fix. Leaving it unfixed makes your accurate work unreliable as well. > > Right. But if we need/want to fix it, we should do it *at the source* > (i.e. in the VCS metadata) rather than only in some of the derived data > (the ChangeLog files). If possible, that's the preferred way, sure.