Bug#609409: dh-make-perl: Please could we have a map of canonical emails for copyright refreshes

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:04:23 +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:

> 2.) Everytime  a package has its copyright refreshed the dh-make-perl refresh
> --only copyright invocation rereads the email addresses. The packager really 
> needs to go through the generated copyright notice and check the emails.
> This is error prone.

True :)
 
> dh-make-perl should have a mapping of old email addresses to canonical
> email addresses (usually @debian.org but not always).
> On becoming a debian developer, someone would merely update this mapping
> rather than doing the mass update.
> On refreshing copyright, dh-make-perl would use the canonical email address
> where available and would merge any duplicates.

That's an interesting idea IMO.
I'm just not sure that dh-make-perl is the right place for such a
mapping because
1) it seems quite useless for all users of the package outside the
   pkg-perl team
2) within the team we could also use it for other purposes (like
   git-svn or conversion from svn to git or tracking inactive people;
   all of that would need to also have a mapping between alioth
   usernames).

I'm not sure how to achieve these goals though but something that is
closer tied to both the group and alioth would be better IMO.

Cheers,
gregor   
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