Bug#567484: pbuilder: -e$DEBEMAIL instead of -e$DEBFULLNAME <$DEBEMAIL> used for dpkg-buildpackage

[Jean-Christophe Dubacq]

Loïc Minier a écrit :
> tags 567484 - patch
> stop
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
>> In /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage, the call to dpkg-buildpackage reads:
>> COMMANDLINE="dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc ${DEBEMAIL:+\"-e$DEBEMAIL\"} $DEBBUILDOPTS"
>> which generates .changes with a Changed-By: line with only the email address instead
>> of the full stanza.
> 
>  This is because you didn't set DEBEMAIL with your name; you can set:
>     DEBEMAIL="Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>"
> 
>  We should deal with this better, but this is going to be subtle;
>  checkout the code of dch for reference handling of these vars:
> if (exists $env{'DEBEMAIL'} and $env{'DEBEMAIL'} =~ /^(.*)\s+<(.*)>$/) {
>     $env{'DEBFULLNAME'} = $1 unless exists $env{'DEBFULLNAME'};
>     $env{'DEBEMAIL'} = $2;
> }
> if (! exists $env{'DEBEMAIL'} or ! exists $env{'DEBFULLNAME'}) {
>     if (exists $env{'EMAIL'} and $env{'EMAIL'} =~ /^(.*)\s+<(.*)>$/) {
>         $env{'DEBFULLNAME'} = $1 unless exists $env{'DEBFULLNAME'};
>         $env{'EMAIL'} = $2;
>     }
> }
> 
>  the logic continues for some dozens of lines.
> 
>  In an ideal world, consider making this code a separate utility, e.g.
>  get-debian-maintainer which would output:
>     EMAIL="foobar at baz"
>     NAME="Foo Bar"
> 
>    Thanks!

However, other debian utilities expect DEBEMAIL to be only the email and
DEBFULLNAME to be only the name (depatch for example).

I would be very happy if this were made into some program.
-- 
Jean-Christophe Dubacq

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