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

[Bruno Kleinert]

Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2011, 15:12 +0100 schrieb 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.
Thank you very much, I had $uploader_name set in my .sbuildrc.
Commenting it out did the trick.

Well, if someone else runs into the same problem as I did, here's a nice
documentation that Simon McVittie pointed me to in the meantime:
http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/sbuild-dm/

As things are fixed for me, the bug can be closed. Reason: Bug report
invalid, PEBKAC... ;)

Greetings - Fuddl
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