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Re: Use lintian to catch erroneous NMU



On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:38:14AM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> For example:
> 	Maintainer: Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@debian.org>
> 	Changed-By: Wesley W. Terpstra (Debian) <terpstra@debian.org>
> will result in a NMU upload.
> 
> I understand that the strings do not compare to equality and that the gpg
> key encodes the personal name. I also agree that I should have noticed this
> before dupload. However, this error is (at least for me) a common one since
> I build my .debs from either work/home in various chroots.
> 
> Sometimes, dch slips it past me since I am only editting the '* ...' lines.
> This results in my bugs not getting closed properly.

In the name of all that is holy, set your $DEBFULLNAME variable
correctly. And next time, read the manpage *before* blindly using a
program.

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