Re: [RFA/Darwin] Recognize .plt section

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 03/05/2018 11:59 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> +2018-03-02  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
>>> +
>>> +	Pushed by Xavier Roirand <roirand@adacore.com>
>>
>> Nowadays, in case of author != commiter, we don't write down the name of
>> committer in ChangeLog.  Any reason you do so?  I noticed that you did
>> this in several Tristan's patches.
> 
> It's something I have been doing on occasions. The idea was that
> people working from source packages alone could see who did the push.
> But I'm not really attached to it, so this can be skipped if people
> prefer.

The GNU coding standards has section saying not to do that.  From
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html>:

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When you install someone else’s changes, put the contributor’s name in the change
log entry rather than in the text of the entry. In other words, write this:

2002-07-14  John Doe  <jdoe@gnu.org>

        * sewing.c: Make it sew.

rather than this:

2002-07-14  Usual Maintainer  <usual@gnu.org>

        * sewing.c: Make it sew.  Patch by jdoe@gnu.org.

As for the date, that should be the date you applied the change. 
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Thanks,
Pedro Alves