Bug#593611: Acknowledgement (debian-policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4))
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> One person I'm sponsoring misread this and put my name in the
>> changelog, since I'm the one actually doing the upload. I can't
>> think of a better wording, though. Perhaps a footnote is enough?
> The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be
> the details of the person uploading _this_ version.
> Perhaps changing it to
> The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
> should be the details of the person primarily responsible for the
> preparation of this version.
>
> In the most usual case, the person doing the preparation is also the
> person doing the upload, but it need not be the case. AFAICT, this
> also documents current standard practice even in team maintained
> packages.
Seconded.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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