On Dec 8, 2007 4:47 AM, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:42:56PM +0100, Cesare Tirabassi wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 December 2007 04:27:28 C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > > > Do you feel that it is appropriate to copy someone else's changelog > > > entry verbatim without giving credit to the original author? > > > > I guess you refer to mono-addins, for which I prepared an SRU in Ubuntu, > using > > the patches provided by Mirco? > > Yes, I partly used his changelog because, quite frankly, what was the > point of > > changing it? Its the author's changelog and for him it reflected best > the > > content of the change, beside it ties with the history of the package. > For > > those not familiar with our SRU, we apply the changes in the development > > version (in this case from the new Debian version) to solve a problem in > our > > stable release. If you look at the bug report this should be clearer to > you: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mono-addins/+bug/149485 > > > > In summary, I made the (evidently wrong) assumption that it was clear > that > > this was a backport of an issue already fixed in Debian. > > So, in retrospect, yes, it would have been clearer to quote the source > in the > > changelog, something that I won't forget in the future. > > I've now adjusted the Ubuntu stable release updates documentation to > explicitly say: > > As with any upload, the changelog entry must properly credit the > author of the change, if it was not originally made by you. > > I hope this will avoid such mistakes in the future. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you Colin.
I feel that it would be a prudent move for the debian documentation to be adjusted to reflect the same. Cheers, C.J. -- moo.
