[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#629660: Bug#629660: [sbuild] Exchanges Maintainer field in binary packages when sponsoring uploads

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:00:46PM +0200, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> today I sponsored an upload and didn't notice that the Maintainer field
> was set to my name in the *_$ARCH.changes file. Now it looks as if I
> hijacked the sponsored package ;)
> 
> I installed sbuild from squeeze and rebuilt the package I sponsored and
> the Maintainer and Changed-By fields remained unchanged.
> 
> Is this behaviour intended or a bug? I looked at NEWS.Debian.gz and
> didn't find no new entry since the version as in squeeze. I'd guess the
> changed behaviour could be related to the changelog.Debian entry
> "Improve binNMU handling to permit binNMUs for multiarch packages
> [...]".

The Maintainer and Changed-By fields are set with the -m and -e
options to dpkg-buildpackage, which get passed to dpkg-genchanges.

sbuild allows the maintainer name and uploader name to be set in
its configuration file (sbuild.conf or .sbuildrc).  If these are
set, you'll get the corresponding Maintainer or Changed-By field
set in the .changes.  In the unstable version of sbuild, none of
these are set by default, and this looks to be the case in the
squeeze version as well.  I would suggest checking if these are
set in your .sbuildrc; if set, commenting them out should be all
that is required.


Regards,
Roger

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