Packages with no changelogs



Hi,

since the git migration, most modules have stopped filling their
changelogs and rely on commit logs instead.

This is all good, but while some packages have added an automated
generation of the changelog at tarball generation time, most have either
kept a useless changelog that has stopped growing, or entirely removed
it unilaterally.

First, this makes packaging those modules downstream a bit harder, since
you always have to look the git repository to see what changes the
tarball includes.

Second, the GPL mandates at least a basic changelog (GPL v2 §2a or GPL
v3 §5a), so this is in violation of the licensing terms.

It would be nice if maintainers could add changelog generation in all
such modules – preferably one that doesn’t generate megabyte-large
changelogs.

Thanks,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
: :' :
`. `'   “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling

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