Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver]

Michael Snyder
2011-02-16T18:10:55Z

Stan Shebs wrote:
> On 2/15/11 5:34 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
>> On 02/16/2011 05:15 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:37:39 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>>> gdb/common/ does not have its own as you created, so far its entries are contained
>>>> in gdb/ChangeLog, it should be merged to gdb/ChangeLog.
>>>>
>>>> If I do not see any comment today I will check it in.
>>> Merged it, checked in.
>>>
>>>
>> common/ dir is to contain the common files for gdb and gdbserver, so it
>> should have its own changelog file. IMO, we may have to revert this
>> patch, what do you think?
>>
>
> We've had at least semi-agreement for awhile that we should have fewer
> ChangeLogs rather than more, but there's been less agreement on when and
> how to merge the existing ones, so the situation is confusing.
>
> I suppose we want to treat pre-2011 change files as read-only, but I'm
> wondering if an enterprising scripter could come up with a scheme to
> pull all the 2011 change entries in subdirs into the main gdb/ChangeLog,
> correctly interleaved and with subdirs added to filenames...

Really? Including testsuite and doc? That does not seem like an
improvement to me....