On 12-02-19 at 04:03pm, Simon Chopin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:21:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [snip] > > That argument has come up before. It is nice that our online > > machinery can infer such information. I still find it much better > > to simply require that the changelog entry reflects in its final > > line the Debian entity responsible for the packaging release. > It seems to me that the changelog is not the place for that > information. Its purpose is to document the changes made to the > packaging, which is totally orthogonal to whether it has been uploaded > and by whom. > > From a user POV, what matters is to know who made the changes. The > chain of trust that lead to the changes being accepted into the > archive are only useful for internal purposes, AFAICT, and thus should > not be into the package. > > I think of this piece of info as something similar to the Ack-By: tags > in Git and such : it would not make sense to store it in the code > itself. And here, the whole debian/ directory is the code. ...which brings us back to the topic of this thread: Why then write "Team upload" in a changelog entry, if that space in solely for documenting _changes_ and who made them, not who _finalized_ them (i.e. was responsible for their appearing into Debian)? - 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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