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Re: building a sponsored package



On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:29:39PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Is the correct way to build a sponsored package with just
> eg -m"Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>" to dpkg-buildpackage
> or debuild? 
> 
> I get Changed-By: the sponsoree, and Maintainer: me in the
> .changes file as a result. That seems backwards.

I think that's correct. My understanding is that Maintainer: in the
.changes essentially means the developer doing the upload.

Changed-By: should always be the person who made the most recent
changelog entry.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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