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Re: Wrong entries in AUTHORS?
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Reiner Steib |
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Re: Wrong entries in AUTHORS? |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:24:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, Apr 17 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:48:54 +0200
>>
>> > +Herbert Euler: changed display.texi
>>
>> address@hidden is Guanpeng Xu, see copyright.list on fencepost. I
>> guess the corresponding ChangeLog file should be fixed.
>
> There's no need to change the logs (changing history is something we
> don't want to do, I think);
It was a very recent change (2007-04-07), so it's more correcting a
recent mistake than changing history, IMHO.
> we can use authors-aliases in authors.el instead.
I thought `authors-aliases' is to match different variants of the same
name, not for pseudonyms.
>> > Hewlett-Packard: changed emacsclient.c emacsserver.c keyboard.c server.el
>>
>> Is this one correct?
>
> Why not?
AUTHORS talks about _people_, so I wondered that a company is listed
as a person who "changed" files. But as Chong pointed out, it seems
to be intended (`authors-fixed-entries').
Bye, Reiner.
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