[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#801653: sbuild ignores Maintainer in debian/control

[Johannes Schauer]

Control: tag -1 + unreproducible moreinfo

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:58:50 +0800 Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> wrote:
> sbuild by default assigns the user building the package as the
> Maintainer listed in the changes files.  That is, sbuild ignores the
> Maintainer: field in debian/control.
> 
> This means a natural use of sbuild to build a team-maintained package
> results in the team (the Maintainer listed in debian/control) being
> ignored.  This does not strike me as optimal.
> 
> sbuild does provide the -m --maintainer flag to work around this
> problem.  But wouldn't it be more natural for sbuild to use the field
> in debian/control by default?  
> 
> For a more nuanced logic, you could perhaps use the debian/control Maintainer
> field only if the user performing the build is listed in the Uploaders field.

I cannot reproduce this. Sbuild does not mangle the Maintainer field as you
claim it does over here. Can you describe step by step what you did?

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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