On Monday 12 May 2008 06:17, Ben Finney wrote: > In recent years I've seen entries in 'debian/changelog' that are > broken up into "sections" by developer name. I'm referring to entries > like this: > The Policy section above is silent on this extension to the format, > though I've seen Joey Hess discussing it in the past. I also know that > 'debchange' can produce it, and 'dpkg' can consume it. Indeed debchange generates the format. I'm not sure what you mean that dpkg can consume it. I know of no special meaning that dpkg assigns to those names, as far as I know it just treats them like any other changelog line. If there's any specification to it, I think it's best found in debchange's source code. Thijs
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