[Debichem-devel] Ownership of changelog (Was: New commit [r-cran-maldiquant]: 03/03: debian/changelog: update to new version 1.16-1)

[Filippo Rusconi]

Greetings, Andreas,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:32:44PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>Hi,
>
>when sponsoring some r-cran-* packages I noticed that Sebastian is
>usually using
>   "The Debichem Group <debichem-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>"
>as changelog owner.  As far as I know team maintenance a changelog owner
>should be always a *person* rather than a team since a specific person
>is doing the edits.

I had two takes on this: either let the group as the owner of the changelog
stanza and specify *who* uploads or, alternatively, take ownership of the
changelog stanza and mention the specific name of the last person checking the
package.

I failed to discuss this with Sebastian, because I use to modify the changelog
file as described above. But, true, I agree with you, a finalized changelog
should mention an actual person as the changelog stanza owner.

>Moreover, Sebastian is mainly doing the maintenance work and thus should
>also be added as Uploader.  Before I'll go for sponsoring the latest
>changes I wonder whether there are different rules in DebiChem team than
>in those teams I'm usually working with.

No, I think what you are doing is perfectly fine, I see no specific rules in
debichem with respect to good packaging practices.

Thank you for you intense involvement here.

Ciao
Filippo

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