On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:08:11AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > since one of the recent upgrades, pbuilder no longer overrides the > Changed-By lines in the .changes files when $DEBEMAIL is set. Please > revert this change as it’s necessary to do so when doing porter uploads,
That's the outcome of bug #567484.
I personally agree that's rather a surprise for most people. Just think
about sponsored uploads...
Is there a particular reason you can't add, i.e.,
`${DEBEMAIL:+-e"$DEBEMAIL"}` (or directly your name/surname/mail) to
your DEBBUILDOPTS pbuilderrc instead? I have DEBEMAIL exported from my
.zshrc, fwiw.
The option is actually documented (I forgot to remove it...), but
1) it conflicts quite some with the rest of the debian tooling (=>
devscript use DEBEMAIL for only the email, etc);
2) people (who don't like reading docs *before* trying to do stuff)
fill it an find themselves in weird position (maybe they won't notice
because they probably don't upload, but still);
3) IMHO overriding Changed-By: is a special need, that need not to be so
easy to use (wrongly even);
4) also, duplicating options like this is imho bad.
mind you, I'm ok at reintroducing it, but with a different variable
name, like $changedby_email or something, but I believe the need can
already be fulfilled by the available options.
> as otherwise the original package maintainers, not the porters, will
> receive the dak mails, which is very undesired and ensures bad blood
> between maintainers and porters (btdt).
please, let me sigh on this :(
why is there nothing sombody can do that doen't upset somebody else :|
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