Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
- To: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Cc: 593611@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
- From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:38:25 +1000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87sk165ovy.fsf@benfinney.id.au>
- Reply-to: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>, 593611@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <87ocbuz831.fsf_-___36774.0484573462$1284869718$gmane$org@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:10:58 -0700")
- References: <20100819161922.3287.54372.reportbug@pcfelipe.sateler> <handler.593611.B.12822347734102.ack@bugs.debian.org> <4C6D5C4A.8010805@debian.org> <87ocbuz831.fsf_-___36774.0484573462$1284869718$gmane$org@windlord.stanford.edu>
[this time sent correctly to the bug report, I hope.]
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> + 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
[…]
I find the footnote confusing, in part because of the two conflicting
uses of signing.
Perhaps clarify the distinction between the uploader adding a
cryptographic signature to the files, versus the maintainer adding a
signature line on the changelog entry.
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Ben Finney
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