Re: pre ITP maintainer wishes to remain anonymous
Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes:
> Before I filed an ITP the upstream was his own maintainer distributing
> outside of debian. His changelog uses his web page instead of his email
> address.
> Naturally, this results in lintian error maintainer-address-malformed.
> How do I keep the history without changing what the previous maintainer
> did?
Lintian will ignore all changelog entries below the line:
Old Changelog:
with no leading whitespace in the changelog file. This is intended to
allow preservation of historic entries that are not formatted correctly
for the current standard.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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