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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel
	variant.
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:57:27 +0200
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Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> writes:

> @David: the following question is nothing against you, I just
> took the opportunity to ask, sorry for the thread hijacking.
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:23 PM, John Darrington wrote:
>> Why are we removing this?
>
> Is it just me finding this changelog format usefulness to be
> very low ?
>
> I've come to understand this is a standardized way of doing it,
> but... Can someone point me to an explanation about why they
> are done like this ?
>
> I read a few on this ML since a few weeks and am almost daily
> wondering "WTF ?" There's often no explanation about the reason
> why the changes are made...

It is acceptable to add an explanation between the summary line and the
changelog block.  We=E2=80=99ve done so in the past.

See one of commits e465d9e19087ab150f7e31f21c09e4a147b93b36,
dfdaea32e90fd226aa98028a196fca3d2d371a94,
7f39e131805857614a171b51cbf432b4285ba1e6,
4c0416ae1709e08c311d32af4823fac9d73364ee, =E2=80=A6 for examples.

~~ Ricardo