Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeremy Reeve wrote: > >> I've written a trivial patch to implement the --disable-dns-cache feature >> as described in the TODO contained in the CVS tree. I need to write the >> Changelog entry which I'll do and post to the patches list ASAP. > > you should probably not bother writing it.
That's not quite true. > from the PATCHES file included in the wget distribution: > > ** ChangeLog policy. > -------------------- > > Each patch should be accompanied by an update to the appropriate > ChangeLog file. *** Please don't mail patches to ChangeLog because they > have an extremely high rate of failure; just mail us the new part of > the ChangeLog you added. *** [I added the highlight] Perhaps the wording should have been more clear, but this means: please do write the ChangeLog entry and send it, but don't send an actual DIFF of the old and new ChangeLog, because such diffs don't apply cleanly more often than not. That is reiterated here: > Patches without a ChangeLog entry will be accepted, but this creates > additional work for the maintainers, so *** please do write the > ChangeLog entries. ***
