doc: only distribute 5 years of ChangeLogs

Remove old log files that have corresponding entries
in the source code repository.
This saves about 2.5MB uncompressed, 0.5M compressed.

* Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): Adjust to taking all
logs since a particular version (8.15 in this case).
Also mention in the truncated log where to get older entries.
(changelog_etc): Remove the no longer distributed files.
* build-aux/git-log-fix: Remove now unused entries.
* ChangeLog-200[5-8]: Delete.
* doc/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* po/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* old/*: Likewise.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 379 deletions

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-2008-12-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	NB: ChangeLog files are no longer manually maintained.
-	See HACKING for details.
-
-2008-02-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	We *do* need two different version files.
-	One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we
-	get a new value of $(VERSION).
-	* Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball.
-	* GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it.
-	* .gitignore: Ignore it.
-
-	Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.
-	* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation):
-	Spotted by Bert Wesarg.
-
-	* NEWS [6.9.90]: Mention the added feature that head, od, split and
-	tail now accept the standard size suffixes (kB, M, MB, G, GB, and
-	so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y) on arguments to selected options.
-
-2008-02-06  Steven Schubiger  <schubiger@gmail.com>
-
-	mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr.
-	* src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function.
-	(announce_mkdir): Use it.
-	* src/split.c (usage): Update.
-	* src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr.
-	* doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention
-	of --verbose output being printed to stderr.
-	* tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr.
-	* tests/misc/split-a: Likewise.
-	* NEWS: Mention this change.
-	* TODO: Remove this item.
-
-2008-02-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	* Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment.
-
-2008-02-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Clarify a comment.
-	* tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL.
-
-2008-01-31  Bob Proulx  <bob@proulx.com>
-
-	Improve wording of date and time man page.
-	* man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING.
-	* man/touch.x: Likewise.
-	Suggested by A. Costa.
-
-2008-01-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions.
-	* lib/sha256.c (set_uint32): New function.
-	(sha256_read_ctx, sha224_read_ctx): Use it.
-	* lib/sha512.c (set_uint64): New function.
-	(sha512_read_ctx, sha384_read_ctx): Use it.
-	* lib/sha256.h: Remove warning about alignment constraint.
-	* lib/sha512.h: Likewise.
-	Prompted by similar changes in gnulib's sha1 and md[45] modules.
-
-	Adapt to new version of vc-list-files.
-	* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adapt to new constraint
-	that vc-list-files be run only from $(top_srcdir).
-
-	Pull vc-list-files from gnulib.
-	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files.
-	* build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove file.
-
-	Improve the cp/parent-perm test.
-	* tests/cp/parent-perm: Also check that perms of existing dest
-	dirs are changed to match those of corresponding src dir
-
-2008-01-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
-	Don't modify argv in dd due to ',' in arguments.
-	* src/dd.c: Include quotearg.h.
-	(operand_matches): New function.
-	(parse_symbols, operand_is): Use it.
-	(parse_symbols): 1st arg is now const pointer.  Don't modify it.
-	msgid arg is now just the message, not a format.
-	(scanargs): Add some 'const's to check for problems like the above.
-
-2008-01-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets, again.
-
-	Now that system.h defines is_empty_dir, include "openat.h".
-	* src/system.h: Include "openat.h" here, ...
-	* src/chcon.c: ... not here.
-	* src/chmod.c: Likewise.
-	* src/chown-core.c: Likewise.
-	* src/remove.c: Likewise.
-
-	* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets.
-
-	Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"
-	* src/rmdir.c (remove_parents, main): With --ignore-fail-on-non-empty,
-	suppress a diagnostic also for other errno values, which can arise
-	with read-only media or when the parent directory has the immutable
-	attribute (set via chattr +i).
-	(errno_may_be_empty, ignorable_failure): New functions.
-	* src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): Move function to ...
-	* src/system.h (is_empty_dir): ...here, and make it inline.
-	Suggested by Josselin Mouette in <http://bugs.debian.org/350541>
-	via Bob Proulx.
-	* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
-
-2008-01-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
-	Don't modify argv in dd.
-	* src/dd.c (operand_is): New function.
-	(scanargs): Use it so that we don't need to modify argv, as a nicety.
-	Problem reported by Adam Goode in
-	<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00264.html>.
-
-2008-01-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	* Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Ensure that .version exists.
-	Reported by Bob Proulx.
-
-2008-01-29  Bob Proulx  <bob@proulx.com>
-
-	Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'.
-	* man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING.
-	* man/touch.x: Likewise.
-	Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011
-
-2008-01-29  Michael Stone  <mstone@debian.org>
-
-	Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics.
-	* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats
-	upon normal termination and upon SIGINT.
-
-2008-01-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed
-	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version.
-	(.version): New rule.
-	(dist-hook): Don't create $(distdir)/.version here, now that it's
-	being distributed.
-	* man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Use ../.version, not ../VERSION.
-	(../VERSION): Remove rule.
-	* GNUmakefile (dummy): Create .version, not VERSION.
-	Add an extra "...:= $(shell..." statement to ensure that
-	.version exists even when the preceding code is not run.
-	* .gitignore: Remove both .version and VERSION.
-
-	ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinux
-	* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Work around a bug in libselinux1-2.0.15
-	whereby getfilecon returns 0 yet sets the context to NULL.
-	Reported by Jan Moringen via Michael Stone in
-	http://bugs.debian.org/463043
-	* tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-selinux-segfault.
-	* tests/ls/proc-selinux-segfault: Test for the above fix.
-	* NEWS: Mention the fix.
-
-2008-01-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Work around Darwin9's set-GID-like group ownership inheritance.
-	This avoids another spurious Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) test failure.
-	* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Accept a group ID of 0, as well.
-	Reported by Elias Pipping.
-
-	Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page,
-	rather than just "info PROG".  The latter would often fail
-	or simply display the man page.
-	* man/help2man: Change the template.
-	Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684
-
-	chcon: correct description of --no-dereference (-h) option.
-	* src/chcon.c (usage): Remove invalid reference to lchown.
-	Reported by Göran Uddeborg.
-
-	Ensure that each version string change propagates to man pages.
-	* man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Don't depend on configure.ac for
-	version changes.  Instead, depend on ../VERSION.
-	(../VERSION): New rule.
-	* Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Define.
-	* GNUmakefile: Update ./VERSION.
-	* .gitignore: List VERSION.
-	Reported by Sven Joachim.
-
-	Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)
-	* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".".
-	Reported by Elias Pipping.
-
-	Improve a warning about non-portable "mv" usage.
-	* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Adjust the warning: moving a
-	dir-symlink-specified-with-a-trailing-slash works in a surprising
-	manner only on some systems.  Reported by Tomas Pospisek in
-	http://bugs.debian.org/343652.
-
-2008-01-26  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
-
-	* src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add jfbterm.
-
-2008-01-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Clean up build-related rules.
-	* Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Update comment.
-	* Makefile.maint (announcement) [cl_date, utc_date]: Don't set
-	now-unused variables.
-
-	* TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist.
-
-2008-01-23  Zvi Har'El  <rl@math.technion.ac.il>
-
-	Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su.
-	* src/Makefile.am (install_su): Add a semicolon.  (tiny change)
-
-2008-01-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests.
-	* src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error
-	return from mgetgroups.  Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos.
-
-	* README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS.
-
-2008-01-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Require automake-1.10.1, for its support of dist-lzma.
-	* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10.1.
-
-	Version 6.10.
-
-	* NEWS: Record release date.
-
-	* README-hacking: Update to reflect existence of automake-1.10.1.
-
-2008-01-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Update README.
-	* README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4.
-	On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl.
-	(Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check".
-
-2008-01-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Do not define-away __attribute__ when __STRICT_ANSI__ is set.
-	* src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ disjunct.
-	It has been unnecessary since approximately gcc-2.6, and now, leaving
-	it would cause gcc -Werror -ansi to fail to compile csplit.c.
-	* gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Likewise.
-
-2008-01-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	* NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix.
-
-	* TODO: Add an introduction.
-	Remove a few entries.  Update a few others.
-
-2008-01-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Remove each output redirection target before writing to it.
-	* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Remove t1 and t2 _first_,
-	in case they exist beforehand and are not writable.
-	* build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Likewise, remove $@-t.
-
-2008-01-13  Elias Pipping  <pipping@gentoo.org>
-
-	* configure.ac: Correct a non-portable use of sed.
-
-2008-01-12  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
-
-	* src/dircolors.hin (image formats): Add the .svg suffix.
-
-2008-01-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Use new version of announce-gen.
-	* Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove use of the
-	--gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option.
-	Use new --gnulib-version option instead.
-	(gnulib-version): New variable.
-
-2008-01-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	* Version 6.9.92.
-
-	* tests/tr/Test.pm: Prefer en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.iso88591.
-	Suggestions from James Youngman and Pádraig Brady in
-	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218/focus=12227
-
-2008-01-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	* README-hacking: Add Git to the list of required tools.
-
-2008-01-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
-	Fix a minor race condition when using cp -p --parents.
-	* src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): If stat fails on the parent
-	directory, do not add it to the list of directories whose modes
-	might need fixing later.  Also, do not bother invoking 'stat'
-	unless the stat results might be needed later.
-
-2008-01-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	parent-perm: avoid a bizarre test failure.
-	* tests/cp/parent-perm: Accommodate the situation in which
-	chmod ("dir", 02755) returns 0 yet fails to set the S_ISGID bit.
-
-	Remove uses of now-undefined Makefile variable.
-	* src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD): Remove uses
-	of no-longer-defined variable, $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL).
-
-2008-01-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	cp (but not copy.c): plug a small leak.
-	* src/cp.c (do_copy) [--parents]: Free the attribute list.
-
-	Make a racy test failure less likely to happen.
-	* tests/misc/tty-eof: Uncomment a debug "warn".
-	This change happens to make this test far less likely to fail.
-	With that statement commented out, this test would fail about
-	20% of the time on my desktop.  Now, it's gone 100 iterations
-	in a row with no failure.
-
-	* NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix.
-
-2008-01-07  Jan Blunck  <jblunck@suse.de>
-
-	cp --parents: don't use uninitialized memory when restoring permissions
-	* src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Always stat each source
-	directory, in case its permissions are required in re_protect,
-	when setting permissions of a just-created destination directory.
-
-2008-01-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	cp: add a test for today's bug fix.
-	* tests/cp/parent-perm: New script.  Test today's change.
-	Based on reproducer from Jan Blunck.
-	* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add parent-perm.
-
-2008-01-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	touch: add a test for today's change.
-	* tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script.  Test today's change.
-	* tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other.
-	* tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test.
-	(td): New target.
-	* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
-
-2008-01-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-
-	touch: ignore "-d now" option, when appropriate
-	* src/touch.c (main): Treat "-d now" as if it were absent, if
-	neither -a nor -m is specified.  Problem reported by Dan Jacobson in:
-	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00010.html
-
-2008-01-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
-
-	Avoid tr case-conversion failure in some locales.
-	* src/tr.c (skip_construct): New function.
-	(main): When processing a pair of case-converting classes, don't
-	iterate through the elements of each [:upper:] or [:lower:] class.
-	Reported by Gerald Pfeifer in
-	<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218>.
-	* tests/tr/Test.pm [tolower-F]: New test for the above fix.
-	[upcase-xtra, dncase-xtra]: New tests, for a related code path.
-	* NEWS: Mention the tr bug fix.
-
-2008-01-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
-
-	* .gitignore: Ignore lzma-compressed files, too.
-
-	Update copyright date.
-	* tests/sample-test: Likewise.
-	* doc/coreutils.texi: Likewise.
-
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