On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:00:26AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:00:46AM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: > > [...] the one in the > > changelog is for who actually changed the package. So someone doing > > an NMU would not change the control file, but would create a new > > changelog entry with his or her own name. > > and a porter (w/o changing the source) would use the -m flag to > debuild/dpkg-buildpackage ?
Yes, according to section 8.2 of the Developer's Reference Manual. I am not sure what the actual effect is. The dpkg-buildpackage manual page says about the -m switch: "Use [maintaineraddress] as the name and email address of the maintainer for this upload, rather than using the information from the source tree's changelog.", so I suspect the only effect is that the .changes file carries the porter's name. Peter
