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wrong author line in generated ChangeLog

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#20400: closed (Re: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:44:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#20400: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 20400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 20400-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:43:44 -0700

I ran 'make change-history', committed the typo fix to ChangeLog.2, and am 
marking this as done.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: wrong author line in generated ChangeLog
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:41:59 -0400

Package: emacs
Version: 25.0.50

`make ChangeLog' gives me a file containing this:

2015-04-19  Steve Purcell  <steve <at> sanityinc.com>
            Steve Purcell  <steve <at> sanityinc.com>

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.

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