Bug#342883: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#342883: Incompatibility between pbuilder and devscripts WRT DEBEMAIL

[Loic Minier]

        Hi,

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> So, your suggestion is to fix devscripts bts command?
> I tend to agree with that, please do reassign to devscripts.

 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.
   I suppose that the pbuilder fix would to implement such a logic, or
 at least permit overriding the decisions: right now, both tools hard
 code the same environment variable; would pbuilder use some
 PBUILDER_DEBMAINT="$DEBEMAIL" instead, that would do it.

 And would bts read the devscripts config file instead of using the
 environment to get that parameter, that would help too.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>