[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 14:21:51 (+0000), Martin J. Laubach wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Please stop change logs in CVS commit messages
>
>  Here one just has to assume that newer is better,
> or wade through 50k of Changelog and try to figure out what is important
> and what isn't.

That's exactly why the GNU coding standards mandate the maintenance of a
NEWS file (and give fairly detailed instructions on what kind of entries
are appropriate in it, and which should not be included).

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