Yves Arrouye wrote: : : I think the solution is in dpkg-genchanges(1): : -Dfield=value : Override or add an output control file field. This : option is understood by dpkg-source, dpkg- : gencontrol and dpkg-genchanges. : : Or -m"My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Yes. But it would be nice to get it : from the control file anyway.
Hm -- I don't understand ... :-/ what's wrong? If I (ok, using the unrelesed (yet) dpkg-1.4.0.1) dpkg-buildpackge -m'me and you' 'me and you' is listed as the maintainer in the .changes file. Otherwise the name and address from the most recent entry in the debian/changelog file. The .deb files nevertheless carry the maintainer from the debian/control file. (Think it would be nice to have something like: Maintainer: <from control file> Changes-By: <from debian/changelog> both in .deb and .changes, perhaps in .dsc as well (for debian only packages) Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]