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Re: Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights [committed]
On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-01-01 at 04:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > even better: let's delete them and be done.
>
> Yes, please.
The old logs are routinely useful for identifying the logical changesets
for changes before the move to git.
The newer logs are a matter of the GNU Coding Standards. That is, if you
don't want to maintain information about "what" changed in that particular
form, you should be persuading the GCS maintainers to allow just logging
descriptions of what and why changed at the logical level rather than the
level of individual files and functions (in the case where a version
control system provides tracking of the "what" ... not all GNU packages
have public version control). Absent such a GCS change, we can still move
to automatic generation but that requires various infrastructure work such
as I outlined.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com