Bug#609409: Experimental patch

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:07:34 +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:

> I have been playing with the dh-make-perl code. I found it easier to
> map the name to the new email address. Since the changelog is parsed
> backwards I could avoid parsing the changelog twice. I did add
> something to the man page but not tests as there did not seem to be
> that many tests currently. I hit an issue with my pod doc but this
> is as much effort as I am willing to put in this week.

Looks nice, thanks for your work!
 
> This relatively cautious patch would require a central mapping to be
> maintained on the Debian perl groups website -- unlike the the
> orignal version of the proposal which would require it to be
> maintained in the dh-make-perl code.

At the moment I don't see where this maaping is used, but a central
one would be better indeed.

> I have not made the change optional. I could try and argue that
> making it depend on special lines in the changelog is optional
> enough. However the real reason is that I have had enough of
> dh-make-perl internals for a bit.

I agree that relying on the special syntax might be good enough to
save us from a config option.
 

IMO we could include this patch; what do others think?


Cheers,
gregor

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