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Re: [obv] Merge gdb/common/Changelog to gdb/ChangeLog [Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver]
Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:
> [...]
> Ironically, the testsuite originally had a separate ChangeLog because
> testsuites were packaged and distributed separately for some time. I
> don't know why doc got its own ChangeLog, the 1991-era Cygnus might
> have been considering a multi-tool doc-package scheme of some sort.
Imagine the relief from all this policy discussion and mechanism
trickery when/if you folks move to git or something like it, where
ChangeLog files become unnecessary and quaint. (We outright removed
them from systemtap during our transition.)
- FChE