Bug#589605: debian-policy: A footnote to describe special first lines for changelogs.
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:14:41AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> How about something like:
>>
>> <footnote>
>> If the developer uploading the package is not one of the usual
>> maintainers of the package (as listed in the
>> <qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> or
>> <qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref> control fields of
>> the package), the first line of the changelog is conventionally used
>> to explain why a non-maintainer is uploading the package. The
>> Debian Developer's Reference (see <ref id="related">) documents the
>> conventions used.
>> </footnote>
> I like it a lot. I attached it as a patch for your convenience.
This has been merged for the next release. Thank you!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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