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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
> I'd go even further, and say if the GNU coding standards say we
> shouldn't be putting descriptions of why we are changing things in the
> ChangeLog, than they should be changed and should be ignored on this
> point until they do. Pointing to them as the if they are The One True
> Way seems very suspect to me. After all, how else would they ever
> improve if nobody tries anything different?
The people who wrote them presumably thought about these issues, too.
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Eric Botcazou