Package: git-buildpackage
Followup-For: Bug #959665

Hi,

It does seem that having a full stop at the end of debian/changelogs is
conventional. However, this is already easy to configure locally. I had
this in my debian/gbp.conf for a long time:

  [import-orig]
  import-msg = New upstream release %(version)s.

I've since removed the dot again, since for *git* commit messages, it is
conventional to *not* have a full stop at the end of the first line and
I kept forgetting to add it for my Debian packages, so now my changelogs
also omit the full stop.

Also, it seems that Debian policy does not mention the full stop at all:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#debian-changelog-debian-changelog

Anyway, this is already easy to configure, so I wonder if this would be
worth changing?

Gr.

Matthijs

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