[Debichem-devel] Ownership of changelog

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2016, 14:32 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Hi,
> 
> when sponsoring some r-cran-* packages I noticed that Sebastian is
> usually using
>    "The Debichem Group <debichem-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>"
> as changelog owner.  As far as I know team maintenance a changelog
> owner
> should be always a *person* rather than a team since a specific
> person
> is doing the edits.

I don't expect team members to register as package maintainer or
uploader in debian/control just to do the upload. These fields should
only be used by regular maintainers or uploaders, who feel responsible.
Thus if you just want to help out with a package (like fix a bug), it
would be perfectly ok for me, if the team member puts his or her name
above the changes and uses the team maintainers address for the
changelog entry (`dch -rM'), as seen below. I do this for a bunch of
packages. Otherwise it looks like an NMU, which it is not. It is a team
members upload.

> Moreover, Sebastian is mainly doing the maintenance work and thus
> should
> also be added as Uploader.  Before I'll go for sponsoring the latest
> changes I wonder whether there are different rules in DebiChem team
> than
> in those teams I'm usually working with.

If Sebastian is the regular maintainer, debian/control should reflect
this (Uploaders field) and the changelog entry should be changed (`dch
-r').

[..]
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> > index e16a338..16895c0 100644
> > --- a/debian/changelog
> > +++ b/debian/changelog
> > @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> > +r-cran-maldiquant (1.16-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> > +
> > +  [ Sebastian Gibb ]
> > +  * New upstream release.
> > +
> > + -- The Debichem Group <debichem-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>  Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:22:47 +0100
> > +

Regards, Daniel