On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:07:34 +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > I have been playing with the dh-make-perl code. I found it easier to > map the name to the new email address. Since the changelog is parsed > backwards I could avoid parsing the changelog twice. I did add > something to the man page but not tests as there did not seem to be > that many tests currently. I hit an issue with my pod doc but this > is as much effort as I am willing to put in this week.
Looks nice, thanks for your work! > This relatively cautious patch would require a central mapping to be > maintained on the Debian perl groups website -- unlike the the > orignal version of the proposal which would require it to be > maintained in the dh-make-perl code. At the moment I don't see where this maaping is used, but a central one would be better indeed. > I have not made the change optional. I could try and argue that > making it depend on special lines in the changelog is optional > enough. However the real reason is that I have had enough of > dh-make-perl internals for a bit. I agree that relying on the special syntax might be good enough to save us from a config option. IMO we could include this patch; what do others think? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Sting: I Burn For You
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