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Re: Patch changelog format.
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at baldric dot uwo dot ca>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:36:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch changelog format.
- References: <20020925053216.GA9339@systemhalted>
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Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> libc-alpha,
>
> When a patch has a changelog history, or is not being applied
> by the person who originally created the patch, does this in
> any way change the changelog format?
>
> Is it important to have patch history, such as:
> ---
> 2002-09-09 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
>
> 2001-11-14 Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
> * linuxthreads/descr.h: mumble mumble.
>
> 2000-07-31 David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
> * sysdeps/hppa/dl-machine.h: New file.
>
> ---
>
> Would you rather just see:
> ---
>
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> authored the linuxthread changes
> and David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org> did the dl-machine.h
> rewrite.
>
> 2002-09-09 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
>
> * linuxthreads/descr.h: mumble mumble.
> * sysdeps/hppa/dl-machine.h: New file.
Simply use the originial ChangeLog headers. They've done the work and
have to be help accountable for mistakes.
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