Re: trunk r112979: * lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el (byte-compile

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:10:14 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden>
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > === modified file 'etc/ChangeLog'
> > --- a/etc/ChangeLog     2013-06-13 17:52:21 +0000
> > +++ b/etc/ChangeLog     2013-06-14 02:31:28 +0000
> > @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
> > +2013-06-14  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>
> > +
> > +       * NEWS (utf-8 for el): Move to the incompatible section.
> > +
> 
> In this thread[fn:1], RMS said that there's no need to make change log
> entries for NEWS.  Should this entry be removed?

There's no need for trivial entries like "mention FOO in NEWS".  But
there's no rule that _none_ of the changes in NEWS should ever be
mentioned in etc/ChangeLog.  So if someone feels the need to document
some non-trivial change in NEWS, that's perfectly OK.