diff --git a/docs/debugging.txt b/docs/debugging.txt
index 074bc02fe..8bd6e3124 100644
--- a/docs/debugging.txt
+++ b/docs/debugging.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,4 @@ When G_ENABLE_DEBUG was defined upon compilation, the GObject library
 supports an environment variable GOBJECT_DEBUG that can be set to a
 combination of the flags passed in to g_type_init() (currently
 "objects" and "signals") to trigger debugging messages about
-object bookkeeping and signal emissions during runtime.
-
-
-2000/02/04	Tim Janik
+object bookkeeping and signal emissions during runtime.
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diff --git a/docs/macros.txt b/docs/macros.txt
index 62b4eb26f..1983b5750 100644
--- a/docs/macros.txt
+++ b/docs/macros.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,4 @@ G_ENABLE_DEBUG
 	- added verbosity of gutils.c to catch deprecated code paths
 	- object ref/unref traps (consult debugging.txt) and object bookkeeping
 	  in gobject.c
-	- extra validity checks in gsignal.c
-
-
-2000/12/28	Tim Janik
+	- extra validity checks in gsignal.c
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