On Sat, 23 May 2020 14:23:21 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:10:55 +0000 Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > On a different note, what do attributed changes in debian/changelog > > mean? Is it purely for credits? Are the names in the changelog people > > one can talk to to understand why particular changes were made? > > Debian's documentation doesn't address this dch convention but I > believe it functions as a mix of attribution and credit. I note that > the Debian Janitor attributes itself in debian/changelog, so probably > lintian-brush should too. Perhaps a debian-devel discussion is needed.
I had a further thought about this; that it is useful to preserve the
info about who ran lintian-brush in debian/changelog, especially for
the situation where the package uses no VCS. So probably it would be a
good idea to attribute lintian-brush changes in a subheading like this:
foo (1.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Some One ]
* Automatic changes by lintian-brush:
- Fix foo-bar-baz
- Fix bar-baz-foo
-- Some One <some...@example.com> Mon, 01 Jan 1234 12:34:56 +0123
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