Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
Hi,
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 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.
I think you're just misreading:
> 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.
"the person who prepared this release" == the person who ran "dch -r"
> 2) Someone sponsoring a package does not change it in any way.
That's explicitly said: "the uploader signs the files, but the changelog
maintainer [doesn't change]"
Cheers,
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