Accepted: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.33 (source)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 19 July 2008 08:45, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:18:22PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Scott Kitterman [2008-07-18 16:12 -0400]:
> > > I'm quite suprised to find this point controversial.
> >
> > Actually, me too, just for exactly opposite reasons (avoiding stating
> > the obvious repeatedly, which is reflected by the fact that the
> > changelog is added completely mechanically).
> >
> > I'm interested in a quick straw-poll whether other people would like
> > to return back to the old behaviour. In that case, I'm ok with
> > reverting the change and just biting my tongue when reading future
> > changelogs and merge logs.
> >
> > What do others think?
>
> It doesn't make much of a difference to me either way.  I think it's
> important to document changes, but where they're completely automated and
> expected, this can be noisy.

For source package changes the maintainer change is not automated, just 
required in all cases.  

Scott K