From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joseph Myers Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha Subject: Re: Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights [committed] Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 17:27:09 +0000 Message-ID: References: <0d577e78-86dc-5c4d-7afc-f4ff6e3a5eb9@redhat.com> <20170101095738.GH16617@vapier> <1483369707.13143.80.camel@redhat.com> <1483371772.13143.93.camel@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483378059 2152 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2017 17:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 17:27:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) Cc: Mike Frysinger , Florian Weimer , To: Torvald Riegel Original-X-From: libc-alpha-return-76534-glibc-alpha=m.gmane.org@sourceware.org Mon Jan 02 18:27:35 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: glibc-alpha@blaine.gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=Wei3c BlkmfVRWcMA3q28ecuxMP3OMntLpS2tS9aOTru6ZdOJBAO320rdhxJgzRbumQ/Dc 4jvQy8uh8aUlrUibH2O4/JXSvvVw8Bw+QYCh2DuuAi75Gqhp7NBP9QNB/oJpSSRX xaZsuzB02YJwhuoi4+gOkdbYbpoYm+7ZXr2H1Y= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=9JDSerNE/qa cIzToh9VCFz5x9UI=; b=coPvirjBHcFtqNmguxA4TS+ag9gPWxDPNVTMM2gbzlN iQZTQpFcNYT8dlltBtJDR7FpRPYA4U+O+YElDShbfE/jRrx2obvgZku2dZVyyhAT xqYlnw4gjWDFeRCkNhJ5asjD9OIyF+TU9LYMWR9eSZrWuQsiThMc7LdeHMWfaTEo = Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Original-Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com In-Reply-To: X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha:68889 Archived-At: Received: from server1.sourceware.org ([209.132.180.131] helo=sourceware.org) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cO6OP-0007u0-T9 for glibc-alpha@blaine.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:27:30 +0100 Received: (qmail 111433 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2017 17:27:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 111409 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jan 2017 17:27:28 -0000 On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Joseph Myers wrote: > * it has public version control, > > * where commits are made for each logical change, not batched into a > commit per release (see bash for an example of such batching) or per day > or other such batching, And, frankly, I think maintain.texi should make these two into requirements for GNU packages rather than the present "It is very important to keep backup files of all source files of GNU. You can do this using a source control system (such as Bazaar, RCS, CVS, Git, Subversion, @dots{}) if you like.". But that's a separate issue from not requiring ChangeLogs in certain cases. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com