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<section><title>CVS comments</title>
- <para>When adding CVS comments at commit time, you can use the following prefixes:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>- comment</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for a comment that can be removed from the Changelog</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>* comment</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for an important amendment to be included into a features list</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
<para>If the change is due to a contribution, please quote the contributor's name
and, if applicable, add the SourceForge Tracker number. Don't forget to
update the THANKS.in file.</para>
+ <para>If you have a change that is useful for noting in the next release, please
+ update the NEWS file.</para>
+ <para>All CVS commit comments will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
+ </para>
</section>
<section id="translationsdevelopers"><title>Translations for developers</title>