dch team 'initial commit woes'

[Scarlett Moore]

Hello team,
In my efforts to improve my weak points I have been trying to implement the 
team dch practices outlined here:
https://qt-kde-team.pages.debian.net/changelogstandard.html

I have:
alias pkgkde-dch='DEBFULLNAME="Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers" DEBEMAIL=debian-qt-
kde at lists.debian.org dch'
in .bash_aliases

DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog
DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=yes
DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=yes
in ~/.devscripts.conf

I run pkgkde-dch -i and the team info is there as expected. I create the empty 
changelog / commit.

Now as stated on the standard, I am to use plain dch from here on out. So I do 
and it replaces the team info with my info :( I am reading this shouldn't 
happen until the dch -r stage. Can anyone help me out? What did I miss. 
Something dumb probaby!
Thank you for your time.
Scarlett


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Scarlett Moore
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Software Engineer @ Blue Systems
Debian Maintainer developer in training.
Netrunner PM
KDE Developer
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