On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 12:39:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> I recently saw a changelog entry (quoted below) for a Perl team package
> where several contributors to that version had their names mentioned
> multiple times with one or more changes below each instance of their
> name. This made the changelog harder to read. I think it would be
> useful for lintian to emit a pedantic or info-level warning for
> duplicate contributor information in the latest changelog entry.
I personally agree with you here, but apparently not everybody does.
ISTR to remember in the past suggesting to change the default of dch
--multimaint-merge but somebody complained that that way it would lose
the chronological order of the changes or something like that (I don't
really buy it).
At any rate, from what I see in my apt-listchanges output the perl team
is the main team that would be affected, I recommend getting in touch
with them before any action is taken. And if anything is done, dch's
default should be changed a well.
--
regards,
Mattia Rizzolo
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