Please generate the ChangeLog file also for snapshots

[Russ Allbery]

Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> writes:
> On Jun 08, Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> wrote:

>> Is it really needed for Debian packages?  (I see that you added a patch to
>> skip its installation if the upstream changelog is missing)

> It is not strictly needed, but I added that workaround expecting that 
> this would be solved in a future release.
> Another annoying issue is that this causes useless changes in the git 
> repository every time that I have to switch between a release and 
> a snapshot.
> Maybe the changelog should just be committed to the repository at 
> release time?

Does anyone use the ChangeLog file?  Maybe we should just stop generating
one.  We ship NEWS, which is what most people care about, and the source
repository is public and easily browsable if anyone wants the detailed
list of changes.

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