Bug#386614: please respect DEBEMAIL in ~/.devscripts

[Michael Banck]

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