Re: debian/changelog and add-log-mailing-address
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:59:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:51:23PM +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> > Many debian/changelog files have a fragment at the end looking like this:
> >
> > Local variables:
> > mode: debian-changelog
> > add-log-mailing-address: "SOME.EMAIL.ADDRESS"
> > End:
> >
> > This is wrong; the add-log-mail-address entry should be removed, as it
> > can cause changes made by Emacs users to have the wrong email address
> > associated with them.
> >
> > The proper place for Emacs to learn add-log-mailing-address from is
> > the user's ~/.emacs file.
> >
> > Perhaps a lintian check could be added for this (very common!) bug?
>
> In that case you should file a wishlist bug against lintian.
>
> In the meantime, I note that we appear to have canonicalized Emacs major
> mode specifications into the changelog format. What would be a
> syntactically acceptable way to add a vi(m) modeline?
On the contrary, I think the emacs local variables are cruft (and I am
an emacs user) - they can be set in more intelligent ways. I'd be opposed
vim local variables too unless it's really not possible to sort it
from your .vimrc
Jules
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