Re: Bug#902797: lintian: check latest changelog entry for duplicate contributor information
On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 11:37 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 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).
>
When I initially added the merging functionality, I made it the
default. Joey Hess objected, and said that he'd intentionally
implemented the "strictly chronological" ordering, so it was made a
non-default option.
Regards,
Adam
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