Patch changelog format.

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> libc-alpha,
> 
> When a patch has a changelog history, or is not being applied 
> by the person who originally created the patch, does this in 
> any way change the changelog format?
> 
> Is it important to have patch history, such as:
> ---
> 2002-09-09  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
> 
> 	2001-11-14  Matthew Wilcox  <willy@debian.org>
> 	* linuxthreads/descr.h: mumble mumble.
> 
> 	2000-07-31 David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>
> 	* sysdeps/hppa/dl-machine.h: New file.                    
> 
> ---
> 
> Would you rather just see:
> ---
> 
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> authored the linuxthread changes
> and David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org> did the dl-machine.h 
> rewrite.
> 
> 2002-09-09  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
> 
> 	* linuxthreads/descr.h: mumble mumble.
> 	* sysdeps/hppa/dl-machine.h: New file.

Simply use the originial ChangeLog headers.  They've done the work and
have to be help accountable for mistakes.

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