On 19/08/10 16:12, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:31 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Argh, I misused reportbug, apparently. Here is the actual report: >> >> >> Policy 4.4 currently says: >> >>> The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be >>> the details of the person uploading this version. They are not >>> necessarily those of the usual package maintainer. >> >> >> 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? > > Hi Felipe, > > I would say that as the person sponsoring and signing the upload you are > the person who is responsible for it, and the changelog should show your > name. > > Perhaps the person who did the bulk of the work before you reviewed the > package and uploaded it should put their name as a line in the changelog > saying something like: > * Packaging by Joe Cool <j...@example.cool> for sponsored upload. >
I do not believe this matches common practice within debian. None of my sponsored uploads had the changelog signature changed, and from what I've seen in d-mentors, nobody does. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c6db122.5090...@debian.org
