On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:42:56PM +0100, Cesare Tirabassi wrote: > On Wednesday 05 December 2007 04:27:28 C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > > Do you feel that it is appropriate to copy someone else's changelog > > entry verbatim without giving credit to the original author? > > I guess you refer to mono-addins, for which I prepared an SRU in Ubuntu, > using > the patches provided by Mirco? > Yes, I partly used his changelog because, quite frankly, what was the point > of > changing it? Its the author's changelog and for him it reflected best the > content of the change, beside it ties with the history of the package. For > those not familiar with our SRU, we apply the changes in the development > version (in this case from the new Debian version) to solve a problem in our > stable release. If you look at the bug report this should be clearer to you: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mono-addins/+bug/149485 > > In summary, I made the (evidently wrong) assumption that it was clear that > this was a backport of an issue already fixed in Debian. > So, in retrospect, yes, it would have been clearer to quote the source in the > changelog, something that I won't forget in the future.
I've now adjusted the Ubuntu stable release updates documentation to explicitly say: As with any upload, the changelog entry must properly credit the author of the change, if it was not originally made by you. I hope this will avoid such mistakes in the future. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]