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Re: Rearranging old ChangeLog files
- From: "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:36:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: Rearranging old ChangeLog files
- References: <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1306061219300 dot 28623 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk>
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Among the files with trailing whitespace I didn't deal with in my general
> cleanup are ChangeLog.{1,2,3,4,9}.
>
> (a) Does it seem appropriate to clean up trailing whitespace in these
> files?
I don't think it'd be inappropriate by any means, if someone wanted to do it.
> (b) Various other GNU projects now arrange past ChangeLogs by year rather
> than with numbers 1, ..., 17. Would it seem appropriate to rearrange
> glibc's ChangeLogs like that (ChangeLog-1991, ..., ChangeLog-2012, with
> the main ChangeLog having the entries starting at the start of 2013 and
> being rotated annually)?
Does rearranging by year do anything for us? Perhaps rearranging by
release would be more useful than by year.
Ryan