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[William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/06/12 13:34, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 05:06 AM, William Grant wrote:
>> On 22/06/12 13:04, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote:
>>> On 06/22/2012 04:09 AM, William Grant wrote:
>>>> On 22/06/12 09:11, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote:
>>>>> On 06/22/2012 12:42 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin
>>>>>> <manutm007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 06/21/2012 10:44 PM, Gert Wollny wrote:
>>>>>>> So, how can I tell backportpackage which key to use
>>>>>>> (like with debuild) ?
>>>>>> Looks to me like your control and changelog might still be using your
>>>>>> old email with just a local hostname.
>>>>> No, I checked and they don't.
>>>>> But yes, manutm-netbook is my computer hostname.
>>>> The Changed-By field in the .changes file that you uploaded contains
>>>> that email address. Changed-By is normally generated from the latest
>>>> entry in debian/changelog, so I'd recheck there.
>>>>
>>> Which file do you mean?
>>> I locally grep'ed 'manutm-netbook' and couldn't find it anywhere.
>> The PACKAGE_VERSION_source.changes file that you told dput to upload
>> several times 7-9 hours ago.
>>
> You're right! The latest entry in debian/changelog is:
> 
> tickr (0.6.1-1~precise1~ppa1) precise; urgency=low
> 
>   * No-change backport to precise
> 
>  -- Manu TM <manutm@manutm-netbook>  Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:14:36 +0200
> 
> tickr (0.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> ...
> 
> So the entry is generated by backportpackage which uses my
> login and hostname. I wasn't aware of that because I didn't
> specify a working dir and backportpackage used a temporary dir
> and removed it at exit.
> Thanks for pointing out that. Now I need backportpackage to
> generate an entry with a valid e-mail address...

backportpackage uses dch internally, so it uses the usual DEBEMAIL
environment variable.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn#Environment_setup
describes setting DEBEMAIL.

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