Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> [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.
Could you point me at where there's another conflicting use of the term
"signing"? As near as I can tell, nothing in Policy refers to the -- line
of a changelog entry as a signature.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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