Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Closes: #555980
+ * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ Closes: #593611
* virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Closes: #613143
- -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:43:08 +0200
+ -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:04:19 +0200
debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
<p>
The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
- should be the details of the person uploading <em>this</em>
- version. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
- usual package maintainer.<footnote>
- If the developer uploading the package is not one of the usual
- maintainers of the package (as listed in
+ should be the details of the person who prepared this release of
+ the package. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
+ uploader or usual package maintainer.<footnote>
+ In the case of a sponsored upload, the uploader signs the
+ files, but the changelog maintainer name and address are those
+ of the person who prepared this release. If the preparer of
+ the release is not one of the usual maintainers of the package
+ (as listed in
the <qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref>
or <qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref> control
fields of the package), the first line of the changelog is