Re: Developer names within debian/changelog

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net> writes:

> As the ability to provide non-standard changelog parsers doesn't
> seem to be used much, would it be a good idea to make it mandatory
> to use the standard format, and at the same time retire any
> pre-standard entries to debian/changelog.old or similar?

So long as "the standard format" is specified such that it can be
reliably produced and parsed (so that we're all talking about the same
"standard format"), and there's a consensus that it *is* "the standard
format", I'm in support of this.

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Ben Finney