[this time sent correctly to the bug report, I hope.]

Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:

> +       should be the details of the person who prepared this release of
> +       the package.  They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
> +       uploader or usual package maintainer.<footnote>
> +         In the case of a sponsored upload, the uploader signs the
> +         files, but the changelog maintainer name and address are those
> +         of the person who prepared this release.  If the preparer of
[…]

I find the footnote confusing, in part because of the two conflicting
uses of signing.

Perhaps clarify the distinction between the uploader adding a
cryptographic signature to the files, versus the maintainer adding a
signature line on the changelog entry.

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Ben Finney



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