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Re: Issue with backportpackage -u

 

On 06/22/2012 05:37 AM, William Grant wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes!! It's finally working...  ;)
Thanks a lot!

-- 
Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin  <manutm007@xxxxxxxxx>



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