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 +0000 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 particular changes were made? > > > > Debian's documentation doesn't address this dch convention but I > > believe it functions as a mix of attribution and credit. I note that > > the Debian Janitor attributes itself in debian/changelog, so probably > > lintian-brush should too. Perhaps a debian-devel discussion is needed. > > I had a further thought about this; that it is useful to preserve the > info about who ran lintian-brush in debian/changelog, especially for > the situation where the package uses no VCS. So probably it would be a > good idea to attribute lintian-brush changes in a subheading like this: > > foo (1.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium > > [ Some One ] > * Automatic changes by lintian-brush: > - Fix foo-bar-baz > - Fix bar-baz-foo > > -- Some One <some...@example.com> Mon, 01 Jan 1234 12:34:56 +0123
That seems reasonable to me. Now that lintian-brush is doing its own editing rather than calling out to dch, it could actually do this. Cheers, Jelmer
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