On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:05:20PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Policy 4.4 currently says:
> >
> > > The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be
> > > the details of the person uploading this version. They are not
> > > necessarily those of the usual package maintainer.
> >
> > One person I'm sponsoring misread this and put my name in the
> > changelog, since I'm the one actually doing the upload. I can't
> > think of a better wording, though. Perhaps a footnote is enough?
>
> The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be
> the details of the person uploading _this_ version.
>
> Perhaps changing it to
>
> The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
> should be the details of the person primarily responsible for the
> preparation of this version.
I would rather suggest:
The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be the
details of the person who made the last change to this version of the
package.
I think this matches the actual use.
Cheers,
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