Hi Tony, On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:54:24PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > As both the upstream and Debian maintainer for roxterm I'm unsure what > to do about documenting a patch that was submitted by someone else to > the upstream tracker.
I would document this information using a DEP-3 header[0], in particular, the Author and Origin fields. If it's linked to an upstream bug report, link to that bug report as well. Author: John Doe <j...@example.com> Origin: link to patch applied in upstream VCS Bug: http://upstream.bugtrackerurl/1275270 > I've applied the patch upstream but don't know the best way to credit > the author in debian/changelog. Include his name? I would either write * Apply upstream patch fixing frobnicator, 02_fix_frob.diff (Closes: #245274) letting people look at the patch header for credits, or * Apply upstream patch by John Doe fixing frobnicator, 02_fix_frob.diff (Closes: #245274) (I typically include the patch name in the changelog message to make it easier to find out when the patch was first introduced). Hope this helps, Ryan [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ -- |_)|_/ Ryan Kavanagh | Debian Developer | \| \ http://ryanak.ca/ | GPG Key 4A11C97A
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