On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 11:37 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 12:39:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I recently saw a changelog entry (quoted below) for a Perl team > > package > > where several contributors to that version had their names > > mentioned > > multiple times with one or more changes below each instance of > > their > > name. This made the changelog harder to read. I think it would be > > useful for lintian to emit a pedantic or info-level warning for > > duplicate contributor information in the latest changelog entry. > > I personally agree with you here, but apparently not everybody does. > ISTR to remember in the past suggesting to change the default of dch > --multimaint-merge but somebody complained that that way it would > lose the chronological order of the changes or something like that (I > don't really buy it). >
When I initially added the merging functionality, I made it the default. Joey Hess objected, and said that he'd intentionally implemented the "strictly chronological" ordering, so it was made a non-default option. Regards, Adam