Re: The tangled web of pbuilder

[Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org>]

Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no> writes:

<other explanations snipped>
> The Changed-By: line is (obviously) the last entry in the changelog.
> If it isn't the same as the Maintainer: field, the upload will be
> considered an NMU.

Oh, right - of course it's picking that up from the changelog; I
don't know why I hadn't considered that.

<more snip>
> As you suggested above, «DEBEMAIL="Daniel Martin <fizbin@debian.org>"»
> in .pbuilderrc will work. You can also use «DEBEMAIL=""», which will
> make pbuilder not use the -m option, which in turn will make the
> .changes-files use the Maintainer: field from debian/control. Then
> the only thing you have to care about is to use the exact same
> string in both debian/control and debian/changelog.

I'll test out the empty string DEBEMAIL setting...
<30 minutes later>
Yep, it works.

> HTH,

Indeed, very much so.  Thank you.