From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant. Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:24:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160926103447.31830-1-david@craven.ch> <20160926103447.31830-4-david@craven.ch> <20160926132344.GA23258@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boWpJ-0005Mi-C0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:24:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boWpH-0004EE-Kr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:24:12 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::243]:36503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boWpH-0004E7-Gs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:24:11 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-x243.google.com with SMTP id 11so5820842qtc.3 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:24:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160926132344.GA23258@jocasta.intra> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel Hello, @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... Thanks -- Vincent Legoll