[Pkg-jed-commit] r762 - www

[Guenter Milde]

Author: milde-guest
Date: 2007-05-30 10:26:10 +0000 (Wed, 30 May 2007)
New Revision: 762

Modified:
   www/DJG-Guidelines.txt
Log:
Updated the documentation of the changelog entries to the common practice.




Modified: www/DJG-Guidelines.txt
===================================================================
--- www/DJG-Guidelines.txt	2007-05-29 19:58:55 UTC (rev 761)
+++ www/DJG-Guidelines.txt	2007-05-30 10:26:10 UTC (rev 762)
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 maintainer to Debian JED Group <pkg-jed-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
 in debian/control.
 
+The Uploaders field of debian/control should list all uploaders, also non
+Debian-Developers. This way, uploads (even sponsored ones) will not be
+considered as non-maintainer uploads (NMUs).
+
 The debian/changelog entries should look like this::
 
     jed-cool (1.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -36,23 +40,23 @@
       * Rebuilt with cool stuff [JD]
 
       * New user interface [SD, JD, SU]
+      
+      * Added "-v" option (closes #3456)
 
-      -- Debian JED Group <pkg-jed-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>  Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:29:18 +0100
+      -- Sam Uploader <sam.u at lists.example.org>  Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:29:18 +0100
 
-Where JD, SD and SU are the first letters of the developers who made any
-contribution.
+Where JD, SD and SU are the first letters of the developers who made a
+contribution but do not appear in the trailer line..
 
-The Debian policy requires the trailer line to contain the real name and email
-of the person doing the upload.
+The Debian policy requires the trailer line to contain the real name and
+email of the person doing the upload. 
 
-When buiding the package, you must use the -e option of dpkg-buildpackage
-of debuild with your e-mail address as argument.  This is important because
-the Debian Policy requires that the Changed-By field of the .changes file
-contains the name of a real person, not that of a mailing list.  Besides
-that, if you are a Debian developer, put your name in the Uploaders field
-of debian/control.  By doing this, your uploads will not be considered as
-NMUs (non-maintainer uploads).
+When buiding the package, you must use the -e option of dpkg-buildpackage of
+debuild with your e-mail address as argument.  This is important because the
+Debian Policy requires that the Changed-By field of the .changes file
+contains the name of a real person, not that of a mailing list.  
 
+
 URLs of the SVN repository can be added to the Source section of the
 debian/control file, which will appear in the Package Tracking System
 (http://packages.qa.debian.org).  They should read like this::