Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > [this time sent correctly to the bug report, I hope.]
> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: >> + should be the details of the person who prepared this release of >> + the package. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the >> + uploader or usual package maintainer.<footnote> >> + In the case of a sponsored upload, the uploader signs the >> + files, but the changelog maintainer name and address are those >> + of the person who prepared this release. If the preparer of > […] > I find the footnote confusing, in part because of the two conflicting > uses of signing. > Perhaps clarify the distinction between the uploader adding a > cryptographic signature to the files, versus the maintainer adding a > signature line on the changelog entry. Could you point me at where there's another conflicting use of the term "signing"? As near as I can tell, nothing in Policy refers to the -- line of a changelog entry as a signature. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
