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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:06:40PM -0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report, is LOGNAME a standard variable exported
> by all login managers something specific to gdm other things started
> depending on?

It is specified by POSIX:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_03

"The system shall initialize this variable at the time of login to be
the user's login name."

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875705

Title:
  dh_make in Oneiric outputs wrong content to changelog

Status in “dh-make” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “dh-make” source package in Oneiric:
  In Progress
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “dh-make” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Stable update justification:

  Impact: New packagers trying to use dh_make in a desktop session started by lightdm get horribly confused when it outputs a huge pile of garbage to debian/changelog and debian/control, due to lightdm not setting LOGNAME while gdm does.  (Iain Lane points out that users of zsh are unaffected because it sets LOGNAME itself.)
  Development fix: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dh-make/0.59ubuntu1
  Stable fix: Identical to 0.59ubuntu1, just with a different version number (0.59ubuntu0.1).  http://paste.ubuntu.com/716404/
  Test case: Create a dummy package (I created an empty example-0.1 directory and changed into it).  Run 'env -u DEBFULLNAME -u DEBEMAIL dh_make'.  If this bug is present then you'll see lots of junk in debian/changelog and debian/control rather than valid files.
  Regression potential: Obviously check that dh_make still actually works, but I think this update is pretty safe.

  Original report follows:

  Please read this description published on ubuntuforums:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1861850

  I'm also affected by this bug and I can add a little detail - dh_make
  put list of users to debian/changelog.

  I think that this is critical bug in oneiric.

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