Bug#342883: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#342883: Incompatibility between
pbuilder and devscripts WRT DEBEMAIL
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Sat Dec 17 05:14:19 UTC 2005
Hi,
> I never made such a suggestion, I think *both* devscripts and pbuilder
> ought to be fixed.
>
> The biggest problem is that there's no spec or man page or anything
> defining what those variables should hold. bts is older than pbuilder,
> so it might be tempting to point the finger at pbuilder.
>
> bts has a much finer logic to detect and use EMAIL/Debian Maintainer
> environment variables, but it has some mistakes.
Note that DEBEMAIL isn't actually an environmental variable, but
a configuration variable used internally in pbuilder,
set in pbuilderrc, and overridden with --debemail.
regards,
junichi
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