Ian Jackson <[email protected]> (2025-12-29): > You want to be very careful with Signed-off-by. Its presence is a > legal declaration. In a project containing this file > https://browse.dgit.debian.org/dgit.git/tree/DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE > it is a quite specific declaration about the legal status of the > contribution, by the named person. In trees which do not have > DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE or similar, its use is probably a mistake. > > Certainly Signed-off-by ought not to be synthesised without > authorisation from the human named in it. > > This is often misunderstood, so I thought I would clarify.
I actually did check the Git doc and https://developercertificate.org/ while preparing my mail but I failed to conclude it with “but it doesn't look like appropriate when it comes to automation”, sorry. Thanks for confirming/clarifying. > Thanks. We'll take you off the CC list as we discuss the details. > Feel free to subscribe to the bug and/or say you'd like to be more > involved, of course. Perfect, ta. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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