Bug#622947: per-maintainer insights into migrations and transitions

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 13:33 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> On 04/16/2011 06:49 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> > It would be nice to be able to easily find out:
> >
> >        * which of the packages I am responsible for haven't yet migrated
> >          to testing after the 10/5/2 day period and why
> 
> grep-excuses takes into account DEBFULLNAME, if no packages or maintainer
> are given on the command line. Isn't that what you want?
> 
> The manpage mentions GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER, but it's not used in the 
> script
> (Actually, it's set to an empty string and not read from env).

Errr... yes, it's used in the script.  It's not read from the
environment, because it's not an environment variable, as
grep-excuses(1) explicitly says.  It *is* read from the configuration
file and used to initially populate $string.

<removes devscripts maintainer hat>

Regards,

Adam