Comment 11 for bug 250820

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

A complete example:

Subject: [ubuntu/intrepid] hello 2.2-2 (Accepted)
X-Launchpad-Component: component=universe, section=devel

hello (2.2-2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Removed all traces of checkroot. It's not really debian/rules job,
    and the binary target will fail anyway if not invoked as root,
    as there is a chown call.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:05:12 +0200

Changed-By: Some Ubuntu Dude <email address hidden>
Signed-By: Some sponsor <email address hidden>
Origin: Debian/unstable

Changed-By and Signed-By should be omitted if they're the same as Maintainer. Origin should only be provided for syncs. Here it is in terms of the .changes fields etc.:

Subject: [%(Distro)s/%(DistroSeries)s] %(Package)s %(Version)s (%(Status)s)
X-Launchpad-Component: ...

%(Source)s (%(Version)s) %(Distribution)s; urgency=%(Urgency)s

%(Decoded-Changes)s

 -- %(Maintainer)s %(Date)s

Changed-by: %(Changed-By)s
Signed-By: %(Email-Address-Matching-Key)s
Origin: %(Origin)s