Change logs: usage of square brackets

Change logs: usage of square brackets

[Nigko Yerden]

Hello Guix!

I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs. 
According to 
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs square 
brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition is 
specified inside '[ ]'.  However looking over the commit history I 
mostly see another usage of '[ ]' for specifying the name of a record 
field which content is being changed.

Is it fine to use the name of a record field inside square brackets for 
changes that are only affected if the content of the record field is #t, 
like in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70341#2 ?

Best Regards,
Nigko Yerden

Re: Change logs: usage of square brackets

[Andreas Enge]

Am Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:10:14AM +0500 schrieb Nigko Yerden:
> I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs.
> According to https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs
> square brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition
> is specified inside '[ ]'.  However looking over the commit history I mostly
> see another usage of '[ ]' for specifying the name of a record field which
> content is being changed.

It looks like we have created our own conventions that have diverged
from the GNU changelog format. That sounds okay to me.

Andreas