Comment 5 for bug 1987340

I'm afraid the removal of colons in LP: entries of the changelog is a deliberate tactic by maintainers to prevent launchpad from inadvertently marking things closed when it shouldn't (theoretically, this shouldn't happen if things are targetted correctly to the relevant releases, but this isn't always the case).

On the subject of basing the branch on salsa, I'm not sure how that could work given I'd need to be working with a repo containing two remotes, one the git-ubuntu import (needed to do the initial split because the delta isn't necessarily a monolithic commit; it can consist of several ubuntu versions), and the second from salsa. But the latter's main/master branch cannot match the git-ubuntu import's commit as the commits in the former are generated from the packaging archive.

It would be possible to cherry-pick the rebased delta onto a chosen salsa commit, but that wouldn't affect the output of range-diff, so I'm not seeing how it would improve the ability to review the merge?