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authorGary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>2001-11-21 23:38:43 +0000
committerGary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>2001-11-21 23:38:43 +0000
commit9c4e8e366b49d557ea6c13fe8890295d3a7434c2 (patch)
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parent8978878fd8d4afe4701c46dcd99d1dbc2cfdeaed (diff)
Removed reference to no longer practiced * in ChangeLog convention.
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@@ -416,18 +416,6 @@ When deprecating a definition, always follow this procedure:
to do at each release. Add a reminder about the removal of the
deprecated defintion at the appropriate release.
-- When you make a user-visible change (i.e. one that should be
-documented, and appear in NEWS, put an asterisk in column zero of the
-start of the ChangeLog entry, like so:
-
-Sat Aug 3 01:27:14 1996 Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
-
-* * fports.c (scm_open_file): don't return #f, throw error.
-
-When you've written a NEWS entry and updated the documentation, go
-ahead and remove the asterisk. The asterisks are used to find and
-document changes that haven't been dealt with before a release.
-
- Please write log entries for functions written in C under the
functions' C names, and write log entries for functions written in
Scheme under the functions' Scheme names. Please don't do this: