Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> writes:

> @David: the following question is nothing against you, I just
> took the opportunity to ask, sorry for the thread hijacking.
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:23 PM, John Darrington wrote:
>> Why are we removing this?
>
> Is it just me finding this changelog format usefulness to be
> very low ?
>
> I've come to understand this is a standardized way of doing it,
> but... Can someone point me to an explanation about why they
> are done like this ?
>
> I read a few on this ML since a few weeks and am almost daily
> wondering "WTF ?" There's often no explanation about the reason
> why the changes are made...

It is acceptable to add an explanation between the summary line and the
changelog block.  We’ve done so in the past.

See one of commits e465d9e19087ab150f7e31f21c09e4a147b93b36,
dfdaea32e90fd226aa98028a196fca3d2d371a94,
7f39e131805857614a171b51cbf432b4285ba1e6,
4c0416ae1709e08c311d32af4823fac9d73364ee, … for examples.

~~ Ricardo