Bug#816688: /usr/bin/debsign: debsign ignores input it gets in its environment variables

[Adam D. Barratt]

On 2016-03-03 23:26, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> debsign overwrites the values of its input environment variables with 
> empty
> strings at startup, thus making them useless.

Yes. This is precisely as documented:

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
        The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and 
~/.devscripts  are
        sourced  in  that  order  to set configuration variables.  
Command line
        options can be used to override configuration file settings.   
Environ-
        ment  variable  settings  are  ignored for this purpose.

In general, scripts in devscripts do not use environment variables to 
take settings and their manpages contain the text above.

Regards,

Adam