On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:49:24PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:35:30AM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> > > > In case of the robot, it can kill ChangeLog if NEWS file also exists.
> > > > Who will support this proposal?
> > > Not I, because it is silly.
> > How do you argue it's silly?
> > I see it's rather smart.
> ChangeLog may contain something interesting and not autogenerated SCM log.

Well, source code also "may contain something interesting", but this
argument is not sufficient to package source code as %doc by default.

Each maintainer have to decide, whether particular ChangeLog file is
closer to source code or to the list of noteworthy changes, and treat
it appropriately.

Anyway, compressing big news files won't harm.


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