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>
+ usual package maintainer.<footnote>
If the developer uploading the package 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 conventionally used
- to explain why a non-maintainer is uploading the package. The
- Debian Developer's Reference (see <ref id="related">) documents the
- conventions used.</footnote>. The information here will be
- copied to the <tt>Changed-By</tt> field in the
- <tt>.changes</tt> file (see <ref id="f-Changed-By">),
- and then later used to send an acknowledgement when the
- upload has been installed.
+ 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
+ conventionally used to explain why a non-maintainer is
+ uploading the package. The Debian Developer's Reference
+ (see <ref id="related">) documents the conventions
+ used.</footnote>
+ The information here will be copied to the <tt>Changed-By</tt>
+ field in the <tt>.changes</tt> file
+ (see <ref id="f-Changed-By">), and then later used to send an
+ acknowledgement when the upload has been installed.
</p>
<p>