Bug#946801: Some thoughts

2020-09-19 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 02:44:00PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2020 14:23:21 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:10:55 + Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > > On a different note, what do attributed changes in debian/changelog > > > mean? Is it purely for credits? Are the names

Bug#946801: Some thoughts

2020-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 23 May 2020 14:23:21 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:10:55 + Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > On a different note, what do attributed changes in debian/changelog > > mean? Is it purely for credits? Are the names in the changelog people > > one can talk to to understand why part

Bug#946801: Some thoughts

2020-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 17:09 +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > How does this look to you as an example commit message, as a result > of me running lintian-brush: Looks good to me. > (extra space before the tag-specific paragraph because there may be > multiple affected tags) Personally when I'm ad

Bug#946801: Some thoughts

2020-06-27 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:10:55 + Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Who or what the "author" of a particular change is less clear to me. > > When somebody edits the control file with vim, we obviously don't > > ascribe that to vim; if they refor

Bug#946801: Some thoughts

2020-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:10:55 + Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > I'm pretty sure that either way, the committer should be the person > running lintian-brush. Agreed. > Who or what the "author" of a particular change is less clear to me. > When somebody edits the control file with vim, we obviously do

Bug#946801: Some thoughts

2020-05-22 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
As you may have noticed, there hasn't been much movement on this bug. I don't want to make any hasty decisions here, since this would be a noticeable change for users - and if we move in a particular direction, then I don't want to have to roll back and cause even more disruption. Some thoughts: