Adrian Bunk: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:13:09PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Package: tracker.debian.org >> Severity: wishlist >> >> On Thu, Aug 03 2017, Holger Levsen wrote: >> >>> Then, Tobias has a point, knowing which team members uploaded a package is >>> useful. So I have a simple proposal to achieve that: make tracker.d.o >>> show the last 10 uploaders for a given package (based on UDD), just like it >>> parses the Uploaders: field from the packages now. >> >> Such a feature would move this discussion forward, so I'm submitting it >> as a feature request. >> >> I think that the logic in who-uploads(1) is probably insufficient; >> parsing d/changelog would catch people actually /contributing/ to the >> package, not just those who signed the uploads. > > I assume you are thinking of parsing the [ name ] syntax used by many teams. > > Note that a prerequisite for such debian/changelog parsing would > be that policy sets strict syntax and semantics requirements. > > Examples: > > Some teams use different syntax. > I did already state in the policy bug that extracting this information > from the lintian changelog is my challenge to everyone who thinks that > that this could be extracted from current debian/changelog. > > This can only work if policy states that that the established practice > of many people using this syntax also for patch submitters is no longer > permitted. > > cu > Adrian >
The syntax used in lintian's changelog is relatively unique to my knowledge; if by changing it we can actually have this proposal work, then let me know and I will raise that internally in the lintian team. Thanks, ~Niels