Bug#759169: [dch] Please add the email address together with the name in square brackets

[Enrico Zini]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.14.6
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

thank you for maintaining devscripts.

When there are comaintainers for a package, dch uses their full name
in square brackets to credit them, like this:

  package (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
  
    [ Brian Nelson ]
    * Fooed the bar
  
    [ Luca Bruno ]
    * Barred the foo
  
   -- Enrico Zini <enrico at debian.org>  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:44:58 -0700

However, as in the example above, the full name is not enough to really
credit the person that actually did the work. This is causing
contributions not to show up in contributors.debian.org, and potentially
also in MIA tracking.

A possible way to address this is to add email addresses together with
full names:

  package (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
  
    [ Brian Nelson <pyro at debian.org> ]
    * Fooed the bar
  
    [ Luca Bruno <lucab at debian.org> ]
    * Barred the foo
  
   -- Enrico Zini <enrico at debian.org>  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:44:58 -0700

Can it be done?


Enrico

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.10
ii  libc6        2.19-9
ii  perl         5.18.2-7
ii  python3      3.4.1-1
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.15-1
ii  curl                        7.37.1-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2014.04.25
ii  dput-ng [dput]              1.7
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.1-1.1
ii  file                        1:5.19-1
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-2
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.13
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.61-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl    2.005-4
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.11-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.08-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.25
ii  man-db                      2.6.7.1-1
ii  patch                       2.7.1-6
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.22
ii  python3-magic               1:5.19-1
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.8-1.1
ii  unzip                       6.0-12
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.15-1+b1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20131005cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.6
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.5-10
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-2
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.07-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.27-2+b1
ii  mutt                         1.5.23-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.6p1-7
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-16

-- no debconf information