On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 19:34 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
> Hi.  I pushed some changes to the *mm modules in git that use mm-common
> and don't already automatically generate their ChangeLog from the git
> commit messages so that the ChangeLog is automatically generated form
> the git commit messages when doing a 'make dist'.  I did it so that when
> changes are committed, if the changes are in the commit message but not
> in the ChangeLog, the ChangeLog in the tarball is still accurate.
> 
> I recall some time ago that it was discussed that it would be nice to
> remove the need to commit changes to the ChangeLog because it is at
> times cumbersome.  I also noticed some recent commits in glibmm that
> prompted me to commit without the ChangeLog as well, both in glibmm and
> in the gtkmm-documentation module.  To ensure that these changes appear
> in the ChangeLog of released tarballs and are not lost, I made the
> changes in glibmm and gtkmm-documentation.  After, for convenience I
> added the changes to the rest of modules so that if anyone just includes
> the changes in the commit message and not in the ChangeLog, the
> ChangeLog is still accurate when releasing.
> 
> This does not mean that modifying the ChangeLog is a problem.  It only
> ensures that changes that are committed without modifying the ChangeLog
> (but including the entry in the git commit message) are still reflected
> in the ChangeLog of a released tarball.  I hope this is okay.
> 
> These are the modules that were modified:
> clutter-box2dmm
> clutter-gtkmm
> cluttermm

You should probably ask the maintainer of those modules, if you have not
already. They'll most likely be glad of the changes.

> gconfmm
> glibmm
> goocanvasmm
> gtkmm
> gtkmm-documentation
> libgdamm
> libgda-uimm
> libsigc++2
> libxml++
> pangomm

Many thanks.



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