Subject: bug#20400: closed (Re: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:44:02 +0000

Your bug report

#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:43:44 -0700
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I ran 'make change-history', committed the typo fix to ChangeLog.2, and am 
marking this as done.

Subject: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:41:59 -0400
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Package: emacs
Version: 25.0.50

`make ChangeLog' gives me a file containing this:

2015-04-19  Steve Purcell  <[email-masked]>
            Steve Purcell  <[email-masked]>

Presumably this is due to a mistake in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2015-04/msg00308.html

Three things to fix IMO:

1) That specific ChangeLog entry

2) The description of Co-authored-by in CONTRIBUTE seems misleading. I
guess it should say something along the lines of "If the commit has
authors other than the one listed in the Author: header (ie, the one
passed to git commit --author")..." rather than "other than yourself".

3) The ChangeLog generation script should avoid listing literally
identical authors twice.