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debchange: Enable multimaint-merge by default

Otto Kekäläinen requested to merge dch-multimaint-merge-by-default into main

It is unlikely that there would be any maintainers would manually write a debian/changelog with the same maintainer repeated, so this would be a better default.

There are no stats available of how many Debian mainainers/developers already override this setting in their personal config, but the derived setting in gbp.conf is currently overridden in 735 packages[1].

This change is safe to do, as it only affects new debian/changelog entries, and only affects something that is done manually. Thus there are no backwards compatibility issues.

[1] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=multimaint-merge+%3D+True&literal=0

Example debian/changelog when enabled (this is better):

     [ Author A ]
      * Change 1
      * Change 2
      * Change 5

    [ Author B ]
      * Change 3
      * Change 4

Example debian/changelog if not enabled:

    [ Author A ]
      * Change 1
      * Change 2

    [ Author B ]
      * Change 3
      * Change 4

    [ Author A ]
      * Change 5

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