Re: 01/02: Revert "gnu: openssh: Clean-up custom install phase."

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

On 6/27/19 8:16 AM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> I don't doubt that reverting these commits was the right thing to do,
>> but it would be good to know _why_ they were reverted.  Can you provide
>> a link to a relevant discussion, or else explain it here?
>
> They remove .../var/empty which breaks ssh-daemon.
>
>> In general, when reverting commits, I think it would be useful to
>> include an explanation in the commit log.  What do you think?
>
> You're probably asking the wrong person.  I'm all for it.  It's not the
> done thing in Guix, tho'.

I don't think that the GNU standard forbids explanations additionally to
the required change description. Personally I often miss this, because
the commit description describes often only the obvious and not the
_reasoning_ :(

A good example for that are commit messages from IBM at the kernel :)