Bug#593611: Acknowledgement (debian-policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4))

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:05:20PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Policy 4.4 currently says:
> > 
> > > The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be
> > > the details of the person uploading this version. They are not
> > > necessarily those of the usual package maintainer.
> > 
> > One person I'm sponsoring misread this and put my name in the
> > changelog, since I'm the one actually doing the upload. I can't
> > think of a better wording, though. Perhaps a footnote is enough?
> 
>      The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be
>      the details of the person uploading _this_ version.
> 
> Perhaps changing it to
> 
>      The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
>      should be the details of the person primarily responsible for the
>      preparation of this version.

I would rather suggest:

      The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be the
      details of the person who made the last change to this version of the package.

I think this matches the actual use.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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