Hi, On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:13:20AM +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > 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?
That's what i'm unsure about too and the reason i was asking for the pattern behind this. I'm leaning more to leave things as is for the moment too - so thanks for your input! Cheers, -- Guido
