On 5 Apr 2005, at 14:44, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
The DEBEMAIL value (which was just [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is copied verbatim
into the Maintainer field and thus the package is marked as an NMU, as
the ``Maintainer and the ``Changed-By'' field differed. IMO it should
not mess with the first one.
Please specify the intended value to DEBEMAIL variable.

I set the DEBEMAIL value in my profile on every machine I develop on to my d.o address according to e.g. ``man reportbug''"
EMAIL, REPORTBUGEMAIL, DEBEMAIL
Email address to use as your from address; default is taken from
your user name and /etc/mailname.

This variable is used by e.g. reportbug, dch, dh_make, and could be possibly confused with the meaning within pbuilder:
DEBEMAIL=Maintainer Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If this was specified, dpkg-buildpackage command will be passed
with the necessary sponsorship option -mMaintainer Name
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on building. Overwridden with --debemail com-
mand-line option.

What should this be for? If I sponsor someone, I would not set myself as Maintainer. I just check the package submitted, build it with pbuilder and debsign it.

According to the following, pbuilder also looks within the user enviroment variables for DEBEMAIL, which could really mess it up (however I never noticed such a behaviour):
Specifies that dpkg-buildpackage be called with -m$DEBEMAIL
instead of default value specified in the environment variable,
or pbuilderrc

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern

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