Comment 10 for bug 250820

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:17:29PM -0000, Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:31 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > To the extent possible, the email should reflect all of the changes
> > represented by the upload. As such, I think the full Changes: section
> > should be included.
>
> Hello Matt,
>
> including the complete 'Changes:' section in the notification email is
> not a problem.
>
> However, I may not have the complete information on each author
> mentioned in the 'Changes:' section in which case I will not be able to
> present the authors in the format used in Ubuntu changelogs.

I understand; in fact, I filed a bug report about this issue over 7 years
ago!

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=95579

It seems to have been closed, but the default behaviour is still to throw
away this information when creating .changes. Perhaps we should consider
changing this in Ubuntu...

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 - mdz