On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 08:18:33PM -0400, Trevor Saunders wrote: > And that's ignoring the much larger amount of busywork involved in > generating the changelog in the first place which if you follow the GNU > rules about describing the diff without explaining it is basically by > definition mechanical.
The changelog *should* describe and explain the patch. It should not describe or explain why we want this patch and not another. Segher