Hi, thanks for your answer. Maybe I will also switch to `gbp dch`; my aim was to keep the changelog more useful (less cluttered with stuff that's really not interesting) and thus write it by hand (often with a bit different level of detail compared to the commit message). Non-interesting stuff still has an explanation in the git commit messages (which can be longer and explain stuff properly). I agree that an e-mail change is worth mentioning. Thanks again Lukas