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@@ -1636,7 +1636,15 @@
The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
should be the details of the person uploading this
version. They are not necessarily those of the
- usual package maintainer. The information here will be
+ usual package maintainer
+ If the developer uploading the package is not one of the usual
+ maintainers of the package (as listed in the
+ Maintainer or
+ Uploaders control fields of
+ the package), the first line of the changelog is conventionally used
+ to explain why a non-maintainer is uploading the package. The
+ Debian Developer's Reference (see [) documents the
+ conventions used.]. The information here will be
copied to the Changed-By field in the
.changes file (see [),
and then later used to send an acknowledgement when the
]