Re: [PATCH] kbuild: deb-pkg improve maintainer address generation

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 1:46 PM,  <riku.voipio@linaro.org> wrote:
> From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
>
> There is multiple issues with the genaration of maintainer string
>
> It uses DEBEMAIL and EMAIL enviroment variables, which may contain angle brackets,
> creating invalid maintainer strings. The documented KBUILD_BUILD_USER and
> KBUILD_BUILD_HOST variables are not used. Undocumented and uncommon NAME
> variable is used. Refactor the Maintainer string to:
>
> - use EMAIL or DEBEMAIL directly if they are in form "name <user@host>"
> - use KBUILD_BUILD_USER and KBUILD_BUILD_HOST if set before falling
>   back to autodetection
> - no longer use NAME variable or the useless Anonymous string
>
> The logic is switched from multiline if/then/fi statements to compact
> shell variable substition commands.

Much more elegant indeed.

Acked-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>

> Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
> ---
>  scripts/package/mkdebian | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> index 6adb3a16ba3b..a70f20eb877a 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
> +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> @@ -71,22 +71,23 @@ if [ "$ARCH" = "um" ] ; then
>         packagename=user-mode-linux-$version
>  fi
>
> -# Try to determine maintainer and email values
> -if [ -n "$DEBEMAIL" ]; then
> -       email=$DEBEMAIL
> -elif [ -n "$EMAIL" ]; then
> -       email=$EMAIL
> -else
> -       email=$(id -nu)@$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname)
> -fi
> -if [ -n "$DEBFULLNAME" ]; then
> -       name=$DEBFULLNAME
> -elif [ -n "$NAME" ]; then
> -       name=$NAME
> +email=${DEBEMAIL-$EMAIL}
> +
> +# use email string directly if it contains <email>
> +if echo $email|grep -q '<.*>';
> +then
> +       maintainer=$email
>  else
> -       name="Anonymous"
> +       # or construct the maintainer string
> +       user=${KBUILD_BUILD_USER-$(id -nu)}
> +       name=${DEBFULLNAME-$user}
> +       if [ -n "$email" ]; then
> +               maintainer="$name <$email>"
> +       else
> +               buildhost=${KBUILD_BUILD_HOST-$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname)}
> +               maintainer="$name <$user@$buildhost>"
> +       fi
>  fi
> -maintainer="$name <$email>"
>
>  # Try to determine distribution
>  if [ -n "$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST" ]; then
> --
> 2.14.2
>