Remove CHANGELOG.md

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 name: ci
 on: [push, pull_request]
 jobs:
-  # CHANGELOG.md is the one changelog: the spec's %changelog and debian/changelog are generated from it,
-  # and a hand edit or a stale copy fails here
-  changelog:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 5
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: FreeMixer/.github/.github/actions/changelog@main
-
   test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # A backstop only: every test already carries its own timeout (tests/run-test.sh),

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 name: release
 
-# Packages through the shared release workflows of FreeMixer/.github. A tag v<version> that is the newest
-# entry of CHANGELOG.md builds signed RPMs (Fedora 44, x86_64 and aarch64) and DEBs (Debian bookworm and
+# Packages through the shared release workflows of FreeMixer/.github. A tag v<version> builds signed RPMs (Fedora 44, x86_64 and aarch64) and DEBs (Debian bookworm and
 # trixie, amd64 and arm64), publishes them to the FreeMixer channel and attaches them to the GitHub
-# release, whose notes are the entry. Any other run, a pull request or a branch, is a dry run: it
+# release. Any other run, a pull request or a branch, is a dry run: it
 # builds and lints everything and publishes nothing.
 #
 # libreac is a build dependency of reac-pw, so publish a libreac release before the reac-pw release

BUILDING.md

@@ -50,29 +50,17 @@ One source builds two libraries, `libreac` and `libreac-transport`, as four bina
 `packaging/*.pc.in`. `openwrt/libreac/Makefile` is the OpenWrt package.
 
 The version and libreac's soname are defined once, in `include/reac/reac.h`;
-`tests/conformance-packaging.sh` (part of `make test`) refuses a spec, `debian/` or `CHANGELOG.md`
+`tests/conformance-packaging.sh` (part of `make test`) refuses a spec or `debian/`
 that disagrees. libreac-transport's soname is its own, in `%global tabi` of the spec and `TABI` of
 `debian/rules`, and names the `libreac-transport7` package.
 
-### Changelog
-
-`CHANGELOG.md` is the one changelog. The spec's `%changelog` and `debian/changelog` are generated
-from it with `changelog.sh` of [FreeMixer/.github](https://github.com/FreeMixer/.github)
-(`.github/actions/changelog/changelog.sh`), and CI refuses a copy that was edited by hand:
-
-```
-changelog.sh sync                # rewrite the spec's %changelog and debian/changelog
-changelog.sh check -t vX.Y.Z     # what CI runs; the tag must be the newest entry
-```
-
 ### Releasing
 
-Add the version's entry to `CHANGELOG.md`, run `changelog.sh sync`, set the version in
-`include/reac/reac.h` and `Version:` in the spec, then tag `vX.Y.Z`. The tag runs
+Set the version in `include/reac/reac.h`, `Version:` in the spec and the top entry of
+`debian/changelog`, then tag `vX.Y.Z`. The tag runs
 `.github/workflows/release.yml`, which calls the shared `build-rpm.yml` and `build-deb.yml` workflows of
 FreeMixer/.github: signed RPMs for Fedora 44 (x86_64, aarch64) and DEBs for Debian bookworm and trixie
-(amd64, arm64) are published to the FreeMixer channel and attached to the GitHub release, whose notes are
-the changelog entry. A pull request or a branch runs the same workflows as a dry run that builds, lints
+(amd64, arm64) are published to the FreeMixer channel and attached to the GitHub release. Git history is the changelog; no changelog file is maintained. A pull request or a branch runs the same workflows as a dry run that builds, lints
 and publishes nothing.
 
 Publish a libreac release before the reac-pw release that builds against it.

Makefile

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ test: tests/test_reac_knock.c tests/test_reac_tapwait.c tests/test_reac_etf.c te
 	# freereac-ops and are cited by bare slug: the public half refuses a docs path, a docs
 	# tree or a build command in the README; the ops half resolves every slug in the
 	# sibling checkout, and says OPS-ABSENT (SKIP) where there is none.
-	# THE VERSION AND THE SONAMES HAVE ONE DEFINITION (reac.h); the spec, debian/ and CHANGELOG.md copy
+	# THE VERSION AND THE SONAMES HAVE ONE DEFINITION (reac.h); the spec and debian/ copy
 	# them, and a copy that lags is refused here instead of shipping a package that loads a stale ABI.
 	$(RUN_TEST) tests/conformance-packaging.sh
 	$(RUN_TEST) tests/conformance-public-docs.sh

tests/conformance-packaging.sh

@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
 #   ARM 1  the spec's Version and the top of debian/changelog equal the header's version;
 #   ARM 2  the spec's %global abi, and the libreac<N> package of debian/control, equal LIBREAC_ABI;
 #   ARM 3  the spec's %global tabi, debian/rules' TABI and the libreac-transport<N> package of
-#          debian/control agree (libreac-transport's soname is its own);
-#   ARM 4  CHANGELOG.md's newest entry is the header's version (the shared changelog check, in CI,
-#          holds the generated spec and debian/changelog to CHANGELOG.md).
+#          debian/control agree (libreac-transport's soname is its own).
 # It walks files, not `git ls-files`, so it also runs from the source tarball (%check). It carries a
 # planted good/bad pair, so it cannot pass (or fail) vacuously.
 #
@@ -38,15 +36,13 @@ check() {
 	deb_abi=$(sed -n 's/^Package: libreac\([0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1/p' "$t/debian/control")
 	deb_tabi=$(sed -n 's/^Package: libreac-transport\([0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1/p' "$t/debian/control")
 	rules_tabi=$(sed -n 's/^TABI *= *//p' "$t/debian/rules")
-	top=$(sed -n 's/^## \([0-9][0-9.]*\)\(-[0-9]*\)\{0,1\} - .*/\1/p' "$t/CHANGELOG.md" | head -1)
 
 	[ "$spec_ver" = "$ver" ] || { echo "  ARM 1: the spec says Version $spec_ver, reac.h says $ver"; bad=1; }
 	[ "$deb_ver" = "$ver" ] || { echo "  ARM 1: debian/changelog says $deb_ver, reac.h says $ver"; bad=1; }
 	[ "$spec_abi" = "$abi" ] || { echo "  ARM 2: the spec says abi $spec_abi, reac.h says LIBREAC_ABI $abi"; bad=1; }
 	[ "$deb_abi" = "$abi" ] || { echo "  ARM 2: debian/control names libreac$deb_abi, reac.h says LIBREAC_ABI $abi"; bad=1; }
 	[ -n "$spec_tabi" ] && [ "$spec_tabi" = "$deb_tabi" ] && [ "$spec_tabi" = "$rules_tabi" ] ||
 		{ echo "  ARM 3: libreac-transport's soname: spec '$spec_tabi', debian/control '$deb_tabi', debian/rules '$rules_tabi'"; bad=1; }
-	[ "$top" = "$ver" ] || { echo "  ARM 4: CHANGELOG.md's newest entry is $top, reac.h says $ver"; bad=1; }
 	return $bad
 }
 
@@ -65,7 +61,6 @@ plant() { # <name>: a copy of the files the arms read
 	cp "$ROOT/include/reac/reac.h" "$P/$1/include/reac/"
 	cp "$ROOT/packaging/libreac.spec" "$P/$1/packaging/"
 	cp "$ROOT/debian/changelog" "$ROOT/debian/control" "$ROOT/debian/rules" "$P/$1/debian/"
-	cp "$ROOT/CHANGELOG.md" "$P/$1/"
 }
 plant good
 plant bad
@@ -81,4 +76,4 @@ for arm in 1 2 3; do
 	echo "$out" | grep -q "ARM $arm" || { echo "NOT A RESULT: the planted tree did not trip ARM $arm"; exit 2; }
 done
 
-echo "conformance-packaging: PASS (version and sonames agree across reac.h, the spec, debian/ and CHANGELOG.md)"
+echo "conformance-packaging: PASS (version and sonames agree across reac.h, the spec and debian/)"