Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git

Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15T20:38:58Z

> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:02:07 -0500
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
> binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
>
> there's no reason the dist steps can't autogenerate a full ChangeLog
> from git history and throw it into the tarball. it's what other GNU
> projects are doing now (like coreutils).

If we are going to generate ChangeLog files, this discussion is still
relevant, since the text needs to be formatted according to ChangeLog
rules.