Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes: > 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. The drawback to doing it this way, which I think is fairly important if not technical, is that this means the person doing the work on the package is not listed in Changed-By, and hence isn't the person whose contact information is on the bug closing messages, listed as the uploader in the PTS, listed as the bug closer in the BTS, and so forth. In the normal case of a sponsored upload, I think this means that the sponsoree doesn't get enough public credit for their work. I think that a practice that lets the sponsoree be listed in Changed-By is better when they were the ones primarily responsible for preparing the version. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87fwy87r5t....@windlord.stanford.edu
