From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3772 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2011 18:37:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 3760 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2011 18:37:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:37:34 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1HIbQdP028960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:37:26 -0500 Received: from fche.csb (vpn-11-185.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.11.185]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1HIbPAk011971; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:37:26 -0500 Received: by fche.csb (Postfix, from userid 2569) id 525E958136; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:37:25 -0500 (EST) To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver] References: <4D30E23F.3080103@codesourcery.com> <4D34C9DE.3040603@codesourcery.com> <4D375F44.70504@codesourcery.com> <20110215133739.GA14877@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20110215211537.GA20962@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <4D5B2999.5010906@codesourcery.com> <4D5B74E0.10102@codesourcery.com> <4D5C1329.50603@vmware.com> <4D5C4930.10806@codesourcery.com> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4D5C4930.10806@codesourcery.com> (Stan Shebs's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:01:20 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00430.txt.bz2 Stan Shebs writes: > [...] > Ironically, the testsuite originally had a separate ChangeLog because > testsuites were packaged and distributed separately for some time. I > don't know why doc got its own ChangeLog, the 1991-era Cygnus might > have been considering a multi-tool doc-package scheme of some sort. Imagine the relief from all this policy discussion and mechanism trickery when/if you folks move to git or something like it, where ChangeLog files become unnecessary and quaint. (We outright removed them from systemtap during our transition.) - FChE