Accepted: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.33 (source)

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On Friday 18 July 2008 14:21:04 Martin Pitt wrote:
> Stefan Potyra [2008-07-18 13:45 +0200]:
> > >    * update-maintainer: Stop mentioning "Modify Maintainer: value
> > > blabla" since it is a required global policy anyway and totally
> > > pointless changelog noise.
> >
> > So I assume we should generally avoid listing this in changelog? (asking,
> > since I usually update the maintainer field by hand).
>
> Pretty please do. This has annoyed me for a long time, it is unclear
> to me where that habit even came from (since it is not mentioned in
> the spec).
>
> I thought I'd just upload it and take the bullets. :-)
>
> Martin

This seems to imply that the maintainer change also is implicitly changelogged 
when carrying forward an ubuntu modification in a merge.
Just though I'd require a YES here before going happily away with my 
understanding.

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