[Debichem-devel] Ownership of changelog

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:35:40PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 
> I don't expect team members to register as package maintainer or
> uploader in debian/control just to do the upload. These fields should
> only be used by regular maintainers or uploaders, who feel responsible.
> Thus if you just want to help out with a package (like fix a bug), it
> would be perfectly ok for me, if the team member puts his or her name
> above the changes and uses the team maintainers address for the
> changelog entry (`dch -rM'), as seen below. I do this for a bunch of
> packages. Otherwise it looks like an NMU, which it is not. It is a team
> members upload.

So why not just adding

  * Team upload

to the changelog which is exactly what you want to express (dch --team)?

There are changelog entries without a reference to the person who did
the changes which is IMHO not the best idea.

Kind regards

     Andreas. 

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