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Subject: Status: Broken ChangeLog link in HACKING
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:59:24 +0000
retitle 48533 Broken ChangeLog link in HACKING
reassign 48533 diffutils
submitter 48533 Peter Oliver
severity 48533 normal
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From: Peter Oliver
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Subject: Broken ChangeLog link in HACKING
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In the section “Commit log requirements”, HACKING links to page which returns 404 Not Found.
(I was able to find this content via the Wayback Machine at , but it would be better if I didn’t have to do that)
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On 5/20/21 5:07 AM, Peter Oliver wrote:
> In the section =E2=80=9CCommit log requirements=E2=80=9D, HACKING links=
to page=20
> =20
> which returns 404 Not Found.
>=20
> (I was able to find this content via the Wayback Machine at=20
> ,=20
> but it would be better if I didn=E2=80=99t have to do that)
>=20
Thanks, I installed the attached to fix the URL. The old Guile stuff no=20
longer seems to be available, so this references the GNU Coding Standards=
.
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>From 4c42ca30c6164e215b2db6dd6efcc3be1ae9e175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 23:56:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix URL in HACKING
---
HACKING | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 85a13ad..156936f 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ keep the maximum line length at 72 or smaller, so that the generated
ChangeLog lines, each with its leading TAB, will not exceed 80 columns.
As for the ChangeLog-style content, please follow these guidelines:
- http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/changelogs/guile-changelogs_3.html
+ https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html
Try to make the summary line fit one of the following forms:
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2.27.0
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