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

[Loic Minier]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Note that DEBEMAIL isn't actually an environmental variable, but 
> a configuration variable used internally in pbuilder, 
> set in pbuilderrc, and overridden with --debemail.

 But it's inherited from the environment by default.  So if in the
 default case the presence of the DEBEMAIL environment variable changes
 the behavior of pbuilder, but it behaves wrongly (as was my case when I
 was using pbuilder in the past: my .changes files were set to
 Changed-By: lool at dooz.org because DEBEMAIL held only an email), then
 pbuilder ought to be fixed to use DEBFULLNAME/DEBEMAIL/EMAIL correctly.

 I opened the bug against devscripts and pbuilder at the same time in
 the hope that the maintainers would take a decision for a common format
 for these environment variables.

 Right now, someone configuring his environment in the hope that it will
 be reused across programs will be deceived by DEBEMAIL which has
 different behaviors / expected formats across programs.  All I did is
 point at two programs with different behaviors.

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>