> Here is one additional topic I want to confirm with you all before > committing it: the duplication of ChangeLog snippets and commit log > messages is a pain. However, it is not mandatory to maintain ChangeLog > files in the VCS sources -- it's fine with the GNU Coding Standards to > only create ChangeLog files for distribution tarballs (where one doesn't > have access to the VCS logs anymore). GNU Coreutils is already using > this scheme, and I got it confirmed on the GNU-internal maintainers' > mailing list that this is indeed fine. When needed, the ChangeLog files > would be created automatically from the VCS commit messages. (We can > steal all the mechanisms from GNU Coreutils.)
> Any objections? I support this.
