> 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. -- Eric Botcazou