From 04cef3b2edb77b90760cf245bd096dfb24afc885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A1n=20Tomko?= <jtomko@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:07:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] syntax-check: do not enforce ChangeLog syntax
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Our last conforming ChangeLog was removed from git in 2009 by:
commit 27b175b9a254d5dc4bbc1d6f198f58b287e516a2
    generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball

Ten years later, it reappeared in:
commit ce97c33a795dec053f1e85c65ecd924b8c6ec4ba
    maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git
which does not have a single line complying to this syntax
check rule.

At some point between the two commits VC_LIST_EXCEPT gained
a default exception for ChangeLog and it did not seem to be
overriden anywhere.

Just remove the rule.

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
---
 build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk
index 5886b82003..80420eada5 100644
--- a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk
+++ b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk
@@ -1616,13 +1616,6 @@ sc_prohibit_dirent_without_use:
 sc_prohibit_xfreopen_without_use:
 	@h='xfreopen.h' re='\<xfreopen *\(' $(_sc_header_without_use)
 
-# Each nonempty ChangeLog line must start with a year number, or a TAB.
-sc_changelog:
-	@prohibit='^[^12	]'					\
-	in_vc_files='^ChangeLog$$'					\
-	halt='found unexpected prefix in a ChangeLog'			\
-	  $(_sc_search_regexp)
-
 # Ensure that each .c file containing a "main" function also
 # calls bindtextdomain.
 sc_bindtextdomain: