Stop updating ChangeLog?

[Joel Brobecker]

> > Joseph,
> > The format of ChangLog entry is out of the scope of this discussion.
> > IMO, each project is free to choose whether to write changelog entry
> > or not (either in commit log or ChangeLog file).  Some GNU projects
> 
> I don't believe they are so free (yet).  The current (and problematic) GCS 
> requirement, that I've been trying to get changed, is for ChangeLog files 
> in releases, using a particular format (which I don't think is a good 
> format since it forces description at the level of changed to individual 
> files and named entities therein, which closely duplicates the information 
> in the diffs themselves) - the projects may choose whether that's a 
> checked-in file or generated automatically.

Joseph is absolutely right, in that, as a GNU project, GDB is
expected to follow the GNU Coding Standards. So we all need to go
and contribute to the dicussion on the bug-standards list.
Let's get rid of the ChangeLog format!

-- 
Joel