Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
Okay, here's new proposed wording that incorporates some of the discussion
on this bug along with my personal opinion on the best wording. How does
this look to everyone?
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 642f672..314d5d0 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1688,11 +1688,14 @@
<p>
The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
- should be the details of the person uploading <em>this</em>
- version. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
- usual package maintainer.<footnote>
- If the developer uploading the package is not one of the usual
- maintainers of the package (as listed in
+ should be the details of the person who prepared this release of
+ the package. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
+ uploader or usual package maintainer.<footnote>
+ In the case of a sponsored upload, the uploader signs the
+ files, but the changelog maintainer name and address are those
+ of the person who prepared this release. If the preparer of
+ the release 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
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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