Bug#882600: Allow maintainers to use different email addresses without raising NMU warnings
Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de> writes:
> I'm using "Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>" as Maintainer/Uploaders
> address in my packages, but when I'm doing uploads from work, I'm
> using "Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>" in
> debian/changelog to attribute my employer.
> The downside of this is that lintian will raise the "NMU detected"
> flag. My usual workaround is to put "Team upload" into the changelog,
> which is true in most cases, but shouldn't really be necessary. Another
> workaround would be to simply lintian-override the warnings, or add
> the other address to the Uploaders list (which seems gross to me).
> I would suggest to do the NMU detection simply based on matching real
> names, but this would not detect accidentally mistyped addresses in
> debian/changelog or debian/control. (See also #820523 for the reverse
> problem where the real name differs.)
> What would the lintian maintainers suggest?
For packages where you also do uploads from work, why not add your work
address to Uploaders? It's a little odd to list yourself twice with two
different addresses, but it makes some logical sense (it's you with two
different hats on).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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