[Pkg-octave-commit] rev 340 - trunk/www

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Author: rafael
Date: 2005-11-17 08:38:15 +0000 (Thu, 17 Nov 2005)
New Revision: 340

Modified:
   trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt
Log:
Added paragraph about the Change-By and Uploaders field of .changes and .dsc
files


Modified: trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt
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--- trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt	2005-11-16 23:21:46 UTC (rev 339)
+++ trunk/www/DOG-Guidelines.txt	2005-11-17 08:38:15 UTC (rev 340)
@@ -64,7 +64,15 @@
 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).
 
+
 3. SVN repository
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