Bug#386614: please respect DEBEMAIL in ~/.devscripts
Michael Banck
mbanck at gmx.net
Sun Sep 14 15:12:15 UTC 2014
Hi,
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:37:52 +0100 Julian Gilbey <jdg at polya.uklinux.net> wrote:
> tags 386614 + wontfix
> thanks
>
> > please allow it to set the mail address also in ~/.devscripts.
>
> This is the same as Bug#241939 (http://bugs.debian.org/241939). As I
> wrote there:
>
> I don't intend to implement this patch: the DEBEMAIL variable is
> recognised by scripts in several other Debian-related packages and is
> not devscripts-specific. So, as currently documented, the devscripts
> config files will recognise devscripts-specific variables only.
> (Otherwise I'm going to start getting bug reports about devscripts
> behaving differently from other packages in this respect.)
>
> I suggest that you have a file called something like '.bashrc.debian'
> containing Debian-specific environment settings, and source it from
> .bash_profile and .bashrc.
Well, AFAICT this makes debchange depend on an environment variable,
maybe not for working correctly, but at least for not being
super-annoying.
What is the problem with letting DEBEMAIL in the environment take
precedence, but still honor it from ~/.devscripts if present and
$DEBEMAIL is not set? That surely is better than having to fix my
random local FQDN everytime and/or having to setup environment
variables.
Cheers,
Michael
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