Ping Karl... Sorry, I didn't know I was in the loop here. Didn't see my name at the bottom of a 200-line msg with lots of quotes.
Having now read it, I am not sure what the question is. Maybe it's this: ChangeLog's of FSF-copyrighted packages must keep the "(tiny change)" convention as far as I have ever heard. rms has always very strongly resisted the idea of putting necessary information into VC metadata and nowhere else. On the other hand, any method for creating the "(tiny change)" is acceptable. Does that help? Probably not. Let me know ... >> Even if somewhere you've felt "insistence" on this issue, >> let's just write "request": "(tiny change)" is more than a request. k