Re: NMU??

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:00:46AM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:24:27PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Please help me clarify one thing.
> > 
> > > if name in changelog != name in control file:
> > >     upload is NMU
> > 
> > Which one should be the name of real "Maintainer"?
> >   changelog
> >   name in .dsc file.
> 
> The one in the control file (which ends up in .dsc); the one in the
> changelog is for who actually changed the package. So someone doing
> an NMU would not change the control file, but would create a new
> changelog entry with his or her own name.

and a porter (w/o changing the source) would use the -m flag to
debuild/dpkg-buildpackage ?

-john