On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/02/2016 10:55 AM, James Youngman wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Bernhard Voelker >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 10/03/2016 04:30 PM, Steve wrote: >>>> The entire ChangeLog-2013 content is duplicated in ChangeLog >>> >>> Fixed with >>> >>> [PATCH 2/3] maint: remove ChangeLog-2013 from distribution tarball >> >> Are you sure this is the right fix? I thought that the ChangeLog we >> generated from the git log was supposed to only go back a while >> (perhaps only to 2013) leaving the older content in the ChageLog-2013 >> file. >> >> IIRC the idea behind this is that we could commit fixes to >> ChangeLog-2013 (i.e. the historic ChangeLog entries) file directly, >> without needing to repeatedly hack on build-aux/git-log-fix. > > It is exactly like that: looking at 'build-aux/gen-changelog.sh', > you'll see that the final changelog is built from git log since 2014, > and ChangeLog-2013 is simply concatenated. > Thus, there's no need to ship that file in addition.
I see what you mean; I agree that this is the right fix. Thanks. James.
