Re: [PATCH] gnu: Make gtk-glext depend on pangox-compat and remove workaround patch

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:12:59PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>      On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:57:28AM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>           Hi John,
>           
>           Could you make it two separate patches?  Why is the patch no longer
>           needed?
>      
>      The patch is no longer needed because of the new dependency.  I guess I 
> could
>      make it two changes, but in my opinion, they belong together.
>
> BTW.  Both of your questions are a good example of why I believe the *reason*
> for a change is far more useful in a commit message, than the details
> of what has changed (which is redundant anyway, since it could be seen by
> running "git diff").

In this case, it makes sense to mention in the commit log the reason for
the change.

As for the general case, we’ll stick to
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html>.  The
rationale still holds.

Ludo’.