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On 09/08/2017 09:16 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
glibc tends to use the "Likewise." style more than is required by the GNU Coding Standards; I'm not sure why.
It's inertia. As I recall the GNU Coding Standards formerly recommended "Likewise", and they still have a circa-1998 example using it (unnecessarily, I might add). This was before they extended ChangeLog format to make "Likewise" largely unnecessary.
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