[Pkg-octave-commit] rev 429 - trunk/www

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Author: rafael
Date: 2006-01-18 17:03:44 +0000 (Wed, 18 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 429

Modified:
   trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt
Log:
Changed format specification of debian/changelog entries


Modified: trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt	2006-01-18 14:43:25 UTC (rev 428)
+++ trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt	2006-01-18 17:03:44 UTC (rev 429)
@@ -32,30 +32,30 @@
 
     octave-cool (1.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
-      +++ Changes by Dirk Eddelbuettel:
-
+      [ Dirk Eddelbuettel ]
       * Rebuilt with cool stuff
 
-      +++ Changes by Rafael Laboissiere:
-
+      [ Rafael Laboissiere ]
       * Cool tweaks
 
-    -- Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>  Mon,  15 Oct 2012 08:30:00 -0400
+    -- Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org>  Mon,  15 Oct 2012 08:30:00 -0400
 
+Notice that the name of the official Debian maintainer who did the package
+upload for that specific version should appear in the trailer line.  This
+is the common practice in Debian, being the format adopted in core packages
+like libc6 and xorg-x11.
 
 At the end of debian/changelog put the following lines::
 
     Local Variables:
-    debian-changelog-full-name: "Debian Octave Group"
-    debian-changelog-mailing-address: "pkg-octave-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org"
     eval: (add-local-hook
       'debian-changelog-add-version-hook
       (lambda ()
         (save-excursion
           (forward-line -1)
           (beginning-of-line)
-          (insert "\n   NOT YET RELEASED!\n\n   +++ Changes by "
-            (or (getenv "DEBFULLNAME") (user-full-name)) "\n"))))
+          (insert "\n   NOT YET RELEASED!\n\n   [ "
+            (or (getenv "DEBFULLNAME") (user-full-name)) " ]"))))
     End:
 
 This is a great help when using (X)Emacs with the debian-changelog-mode and
@@ -64,13 +64,9 @@
 that for the "eval" code above to work, version 24.12-1 or later of the
 dpkg-dev-el must be installed.
 
-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).
+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).
 
 
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