On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:29:27AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> [2008-01-11 00:14:05 CET]: > > Additionally, lintian complains when you're the last one to have > > committed changes to it but is not listed in the Maintainers field ;-)... > > Erm, and right it is about doing that! Bugs won't get properly closed > with the changelog entry if the person that signes the changes isn't in > Maintainer or Uploaders. So if the changelog containes some Closes: > message it *has* to be the name of someone listed in Uploaders. Huh? Are you saying that NMUs can't use the Closes: mechanism to close bugs? Or sponsored uploads, for that matter, since the uploaded changes file is only signed by the sponsor, not by the person changing the files. I agree that lintian is totally right about checking this, but it's not as bad as you seem to think. :-) Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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