+changelog includes misleading information related to package versions and authors

But, as Gauvain correctly noted, the real changelog is:

discover (2.0.7-3ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable:
     - discover.dtd: Change device->model default to 'default'
     - Miscellaneous changes to allow default entries for vendors

 -- Gauvain Pocentek <email address hidden> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:44:51 +0100

discover (2.0.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * QA upload.
  * NMU ACK. Closes: #305042. Thanks to Jeroen and David, see below.
  * sysdeps/stub/stubs.c: Fix FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (and any system using
    sysdep/stubs/). Closes: #364863. Patch by Robert Millan
    <email address hidden>, thanks.
  * doc/discover-modprobe.8, debian/discover.postrm: Removed "/usr/local" from
    paths in man page, and added removal of /var/lib/discover in postrm.
    Closes: #328497. Thanks to Lars Wirzenius <email address hidden>.
  * debian/discover.postinst: Enter invoke-rc.d. Closes: #367739.
  * doc/device-types.xml, doc/discover.1, doc/guide.html, doc/guide.txt: Fixed
    typo. Closes: #311442.
  * debian/rules: Fixed debian-rules-missing-required-target binary-indep.
  * debian/changelog: Fixed syntax-error-in-debian-changelog.

 -- Bart Martens <email address hidden> Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:36:08 +0200

discover (2.0.7-2.1ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian.

 -- Martin Meredith <email address hidden> Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:10:47 +0000

So my request is to display the debian/changelog in launchpad without replacing the Debian maintainer by the Ubuntu maintainer.

Thanks,

Bart Martens
<email address hidden>

I don't know how to change the title back to what I originally posted, so I mark this bug as rejected and post a new one.

You can change the bug title with the "Description & Tags" link in the top right (this is not as obvious as it could be).

Bart: the changelog displayed in Launchpad is actually constructed from the .changes file for the package (by combining the "Changes", "Changed-By" and "Date" values).

It isn't a case of reading the debian/changelog file and then mangling it.

On storing the debian/changelog file in the librarian, how would that be done? Assuming each new upload only tacks on new entries and thus only storing the diff has some potential problems. As far as I know, it is possible to have the entry of a specific version change between uploads (fixing a typo in a bug number for example), though frowned upon.

Another case is where there are two lines of development on a package, and one supercedes the other. One uploaded to experimental and when it is time to upload to unstable the other branch is chosen.

I'll have to dig up some solid evidence on this, but my mind seems to think having seen this happen in Debian.

A good example would be: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20070102T101703Z.html

* Fix year 2018 in changelog for Michael Alan Dorman's upload in 1998,
     which was confusing the changelog parsers. Closes: #402526

Quoting James Henstridge:
> Bart: the changelog displayed in Launchpad is actually constructed
> from the .changes file for the package (by combining the "Changes",
> "Changed-By" and "Date" values).

That's precisely the problem when syncing packages, since syncs have in Changed-By the person who requested the sync, and not the person who did the changes.

For example, I've been requesting syncs for gdl, and I'm listed as the author of 0.7.10-1, where it was Rob Bradford who did it (and has done for almost all the uploads listed in that page, but he's only credited in one).

>For example, I've been requesting syncs for gdl, and I'm
> listed as the author of 0.7.10-1, where it was Rob Bradford
> who did it (and has done for almost all the uploads listed
> in that page, but he's only credited in one).

Forgot the url:
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdl

Not currently scheduled - putting into the pool of backlogged items. A patch would be wonderful if someone wants to address this.