Bug#575639: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Here's a proposed patch that cleans up the wording of Maintainer,
> Uploaders, and Changed-By to reflect current practice. There is another
> outstanding bug in this area to document further restrictions on
> Maintainer and Uploaders, but this is the easy part so I wanted to
> resolve this first.
> The following patch tightens the syntax of Maintainer to a must,
> tightens the use of comma as a separator in Uploaders to a must, permits
> people to use multi-line Uploaders fields (we were waiting for the lenny
> release), and is explicit that the syntax of Changed-By is the same as
> Maintainer and is a bit clearer about what goes into that field.
This has been merged for the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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