[postgis-devel] [MOTION] Drop ChangeLog support

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:09:19PM +0100, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 2019-10-28 11:30, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > I know you didn't expect this from me, as GNU Coding Standards
> > want it [1] but the output from git2cl is horrible and it's so
> > easy to get detailed change logs from a git repository that I
> > think our ChangeLog can go.
> > 
> > So, motion: drop ChangeLog from repository and release tarballs.
> 
> For users of postgis from git it's not a big loss, for users of the release
> tarballs it's a bigger loss.
> 
> They need to go out of their way to get the changes from the git repo.
> 
> So I'm not a fan of this proposal, but as long as NEWS contains everything
> relevant to me as packager and to users of the package I can live with it.

As an alternative we could keep generate the ChangeLog as part of the
release process. Not a big deal, we have a make_dist.sh for that...

--strk;