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Re: pre ITP maintainer wishes to remain anonymous



Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes:

> Before I filed an ITP the upstream was his own maintainer distributing
> outside of debian.  His changelog uses his web page instead of his email
> address.

> Naturally, this results in lintian error maintainer-address-malformed.

> How do I keep the history without changing what the previous maintainer
> did?

Lintian will ignore all changelog entries below the line:

    Old Changelog:

with no leading whitespace in the changelog file.  This is intended to
allow preservation of historic entries that are not formatted correctly
for the current standard.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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