Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:10:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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
As I said earlier, I do not think that this matches current practices.
As I see current practices:
1) the name in the changelog in the one of whoever ran dch last, i.e. the name of the developer
who changed the date in the changelog last.
2) Someone sponsoring a package does not change it in any way.
Maybe this kind of information are better placed in the developer reference than in
policy.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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