Hi!

 TP> Was the patch recorded with Amend-record? If it was, it's probably just a
 TP> matter the Amend-record not being totally optimized, but the patch should
 TP> be fine although odd looking.

Yes, the first one was altered with amend-record to resolve a conflict, however
this one
http://re.jabber.ru/~alexey/ejabberd/_darcs/patches/20070829161259-9f22b-1bdefba7d07cdcbf79431c0e7de9e8a2ac4f7635.gz
containing

hunk ./ChangeLog 1
-2007-08-29  Alexey Shchepin  <alexey@process-one.net>
+2007-08-29  Mickael Remond  <mremond@process-one.net>
+
+	* doc/guide.tex: Documentation for XML based optimisation build
+	time option (EJAB-298)
hunk ./ChangeLog 6
+2007-08-29  Alexey Shchepin  <alexey@process-one.net>
+	

is a result of tailor svn->darcs gate, and I believe it doesn't use
amend-record.