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Bug#797178: lintian.d.o: report for Debian-Med Packaging Team is virtually empty



Jakub Wilk:
> Control: tags -1 + patch
> 
> * Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>, 2016-01-14, 18:12:
>> I've now discovered how to "fix" this: Lintian seems to use the
>> maintainer's name for collecting the HTML output. If the name differs
>> between packages, lintian silently discards those reports with other
>> names, although the e-mail address stays the same.
> 
> Aha, thanks for the hint!
> 

Indeed, many thanks for that hint.

> Actually, there's already code to deal with different names for the same
> e-mail address, but AFAICS it was only applied to Maintainer, not to
> Uploaders.
> 
> The attached patch should fix the problem. (Unfortunately I have no idea
> how to test it...)
> 

There is only one way to test it: "apply it to production and watch the
world burn!"

I have applied directly on lindsay.d.o.  If it works, tomorrow's report
will show up correctly.  If it fails miserably, the old report will stay
live.

Thanks,
~Niels



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