diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5517bc1a117..a8b580a0605 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Mar 10 11:44:55 2000  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
+
+	* MAINTAINERS: Devolve responsibility for domain maintenance.
+
 2000-03-06  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
 
 	* minsyms.c (prim_record_minimal_symbol_and_info): Add comment.
diff --git a/gdb/MAINTAINERS b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
index 4d741d25e0a..47e594dc67a 100644
--- a/gdb/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
@@ -14,14 +14,12 @@ Peter Schauer			Peter.Schauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
 Note individuals who maintain parts of the debugger need approval to
 check in changes outside of the immediate domain that they maintain.
 
-If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the problem falls to
-the head maintainer.
+If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
+falls to the head maintainer.
 
-If there are several maintainers for a given domain then the problem
-falls to the first maintainer.  The second and third maintainers are
-firstly known to have expertise in the given domain and secondly are
-available to step in if the first maintainer is to be absent for any
-reason.
+If there are several maintainers for a given domain then
+responsibility falls to the first maintainer.  The first maintainer is
+free to devolve that responsibility among the other maintainers.
 
 
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