Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.55 Severity: wishlist Hi,
today I had an idea how to enhance dch. Lets consider the following scenario(s): - A Debian developer works for a company where he creates packages for customers, where he'd typically use his company email adress as maintainer adress. - A Debian and Ubuntu developer uses his @debian.org adress for packages he maintains in Debian and @ubuntu.com for packages maintained in Ubuntu. For now people have to use workarounds to support this. For example chaning DEBEMAIL manually on purpose. Or teaching their shell to set the env var path-dependent. I'd propose the following: Add a new variable DEBEMAILS (notice the s, its there to not even run the risk of breaking apps that use DEBEMAIL) DEBEMAILS would be a comma-seperated list of values as they now can be in DEBEMAIL. A new heuristic in debchange would now check, if this env var is set, weither one of these values matches the maintainer field or an entry in the uploaders list. If yes, then the value is used as DEBEMAIL setting. The rationale is, that problems that arise from the current behaviour can be eliminated. For example there is no auto-NMU triggered if one forgots to change DEBEMAIL. I'm going to implement this, unless someone stops me. Comments welcome. Best Regards, Patrick -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- Not present -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4.1 Debian package development tools ii libc6 2.10.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.10.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.11-1 Delayed job execution and batch pr ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2 simple mail user agent ii bzr 2.0.2-1 easy to use distributed version co ii curl 7.19.5-1.1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System ii dctrl-tools 2.13.1 Command-line tools to process Debi ii debian-keyring [de 2009.08.27 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D ii dput 0.9.5.1 Debian package upload tool ii epiphany-browser [ 2.29.1-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen ii fakeroot 1.14.3 Gives a fake root environment ii git-core 1:1.6.5.2-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gnupg 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii iceweasel [www-bro 3.0.14-1 lightweight web browser based on M ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.13-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-2 Support for https protocol in LWP ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control- ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.710.08-2 Client and server side SOAP implem ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii libwww-perl 5.833-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.07-1 fast, lightweight YAML loader and ii lintian 2.2.17 Debian package checker ii lsb-release 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base version report ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii man-db 2.5.6-3 on-line manual pager ii mercurial 1.3.1-1 scalable distributed version contr ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-8 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii patchutils 0.3.1-2 Utilities to work with patches ii sensible-utils 0.0.1 Utilities for sensible alternative ii strace 4.5.19-1 A system call tracer ii subversion 1.6.6dfsg-1 Advanced version control system ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii wdiff 0.5-19 Compares two files word by word ii wget 1.12-1.1 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available) pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available) pn gnuplot <none> (no description available) ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-2 Perl module to handle freedesktop pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available) ii mutt 1.5.20-4 text-based mailreader supporting M ii svn-buildpackage 0.6.29 helper programs to maintain Debian -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
