Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote:

>> 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.
>  
> In the most usual case, the person doing the preparation is also the
> person doing the upload, but it need not be the case. AFAICT, this
> also documents current standard practice even in team maintained
> packages.

Seconded.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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