Policy regarding maintainer field (Re: [ubuntu/intrepid] gnome-build 2.24.0-1ubuntu1 (Accepted))

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:39:00AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 21:32 +0000, Christophe Sauthier wrote:
> 
> > gnome-build (2.24.0-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
> > 
> >   * Update of the maintener field.
> > 
> >   * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
> >     specification.
> > 
> This is a change to the control fields implied by the XubuntuY version
> (and required by policy).
> 
> There's no need to mention it in the changelog.
> 
> (Cc'd to ubuntu-devel to remind others)

Rather than just remind ubuntu-devel@, how about:

--- policy.sgml	2008-09-19 19:40:11 +0000
+++ policy.sgml	2008-10-08 15:56:41 +0000
@@ -1021,7 +1021,10 @@
 	    </list>
 	  If the <tt>Maintainer</tt> field is modified, then the old
 	  value must be saved in a field named
-	  <tt>XSBC-Original-Maintainer</tt>.
+	  <tt>XSBC-Original-Maintainer</tt>.  Because it is mandated and very
+      common, it is not necessary or appropriate to document this change
+      in <file>debian/changelog</file>.
+
 	</p>
       </sect>

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 - mdz