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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> I don't object to the spending time of writing changelogs.  I just think =
the=20
> information that the GCS suggests is not helpful.  It is not usefull to s=
ay=20
> changed file foo.scm, because using git show that is obvious.  There is e=
ven a=20
> perl script out in the wild somewhere to generate exactly that.  Typing i=
t=20
> in is redundant.=20
>
> What would be  useful (but in general) we don't put in the changelogs is =
WHY a
> developer changed foo.scm

I disagree.  90% of the time, if something needs explanation, then the
explanation belongs as comments in the code.  Well, I=E2=80=99m just
paraphrasing the GCS.

If you would like to propose amendments to the GCS, please use
bug-standards@gnu.org.

(Though I would instead recommend keeping up the good packaging work. ;-))

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.