Bug#575639: Bug#567489: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 14/06/10 04:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Objections or seconds?
> 
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index df6ae89..5a76cf3 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2672,7 +2672,7 @@ Package: libc6
>  
>         <p>
>           The package maintainer's name and email address.  The name
> -         should come first, then the email address inside angle
> +         must come first, then the email address inside angle
>           brackets <tt>&lt;&gt</tt> (in RFC822 format).
>         </p>
>  
> @@ -2690,17 +2690,16 @@ Package: libc6
>       <sect1 id="f-Uploaders">
>            <heading><tt>Uploaders</tt></heading>
>  
> -          <p>
> -            List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of
> -            the package, if any. If the package has other maintainers
> -            beside the one named in the 
> -            <qref id="f-Maintainer">Maintainer field</qref>, their
> -            names and email addresses should be listed here. The
> -            format is the same as that of the Maintainer tag, and
> -            multiple entries should be comma separated. Currently,
> -            this field is restricted to a single line of data.  This
> -            is an optional field.
> -          </p>
> +       <p>
> +         List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of
> +         the package, if any. If the package has other maintainers
> +         beside the one named in the
> +         <qref id="f-Maintainer">Maintainer field</qref>, their names
> +         and email addresses should be listed here. The format is the
> +         same as that of the Maintainer tag, and multiple entries must
> +         be comma separated.  This is an optional field.
> +       </p>
> +
>         <p>
>           Any parser that interprets the Uploaders field in
>           <file>debian/control</file> must permit it to span multiple
> @@ -2714,9 +2713,10 @@ Package: libc6
>         <heading><tt>Changed-By</tt></heading>
>  
>         <p>
> -         The name and email address of the person who changed the
> -         said package. Usually the name of the maintainer.
> -         All the rules for the Maintainer field apply here, too.
> +         The name and email address of the person who prepared this
> +         version of the package, usually a maintainer.  The syntax is
> +         the same as for the <qref id="f-Maintainer">Maintainer
> +         field</qref>.
>         </p>
>       </sect1>
> 

Seconded.

Emilio

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