On 12-02-19 at 09:59am, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 05:51:57PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > > > It'd be nice if debbugs could understand "[ Debian Developer ]" > > lines and give credit to the appropriate individuals when closing > > bugs mentioned in changelogs. But I understand that's not entirely > > trivial to do, and I don't consider that to be enough of a reason to > > keep around hard to attribute changelog entries. > > Hi Stefano, > > If there is ambiguity about credit, perhaps the BTS boilerplate could > be amended to include a disclaimer that not all of it shall come to > the uploader. > > Recenlty, I have uploaded new packages with changelogs like the > following. > > r-cran-proto (0.3-9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * Team upload. > > [ Carlos Borroto ] > * Initial release (Closes: #657994) > > -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:24 +0900 > > At first I worried that it would deprive Carlos from the credit of > preparing the package. But in the end, I think that such a changelog > clearly presents the responsibilities, credit aside. I am responsible > for having uploaded the package, and Carlos is responsible for making > this packaging happen. > > If the changelogs were about credit, what would be missing there would > be the contribution of the team to the packaging work of Carlos, and > that would bring us back putting the team's name in the changelog > signature, which is not as informative as having a human name. I also use the style listing the contributor in square brackets and myself at the final line, when releasing a package (fully or mostly) on behalf of others - whether or not done in a team. I understand that adding that "Team upload" statement silences lintian when my name is not listed as maintainer or uploader, but is that not all? I fail to see other benefit than that, and I fail to understand what other style is sensible than the above. In other words, can someone please help post a concrete example of a different changelog style than above, involving "Team upload" statement so that I understand what is really discussed here? Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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