Re: your recent changes

[Jeffrey A Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 22:08, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:46:40 -0600, Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 09:15, Richard Kenner wrote:
> >>     The white space ones, I think the requirement is not documented but the
> >>     official policy is a changelog entry for every change, even mirror format
> >>     changes and comment changes especially.
> >> 
> >> I didn't think there was such a policy.  And I would be against creating
> >> such.  ChangeLog is a useful mechanism for seeing what was changed.  As soon
> >> as we start cluttering it with things that have no substance (such as a change
> >> that adds a single blank), it loses a lot of that usefulness.
> 
> > We've had such a policy for several years.  Please adhere to that
> > policy.
> 
> We have?  I wasn't aware of that change.  I agree with Kenner on this.
It dates back to the egcs days -- I didn't care enough about it
to argue with those who proposed and argued for the policy.

jeff