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

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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.

We're getting closer to the backyard[1] here, but the last change
could be terribly minor, and the person making that change may not
actually have primary responsibility for that version of the package.

Alternatively, if you're invoking the tautology, where the last step
is to sign the changelog, so the person who signs the changelog is the
person whose name is there, I agree, but don't think that's important
enough to document.


Don Armstrong

1: Or wherever the bikeshed is located
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