As you may have noticed, there hasn't been much movement on this bug. I don't want to make any hasty decisions here, since this would be a noticeable change for users - and if we move in a particular direction, then I don't want to have to roll back and cause even more disruption.
Some thoughts: There are essentially two identities that can be associated with a change: * the git committer * the git author (also what "gbp dch" and lintian-brush put in debian/changelog) I'm pretty sure that either way, the committer should be the person running lintian-brush. Who or what the "author" of a particular change is less clear to me. When somebody edits the control file with vim, we obviously don't ascribe that to vim; if they reformat all files with wrap-and-sort, we don't set the author to wrap-and-sort. At what point do we cross over? lintian-brush is fairly autonomous - it makes changes from start to end, and I think that's probably what sets it apart from the other tools I've mentioned. But isn't fully in the drivers' seat - the committer decides when to run it and with what arguments. On a different note, what do attributed changes in debian/changelog mean? Is it purely for credits? Are the names in the changelog people one can talk to to understand why particular changes were made?
