Your message dated Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:43:38 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Fixed in dulwich has caused the Debian Bug report #977731, regarding lintian-brush: Default committer identity doesn't always match `git config user.email` to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian-brush Version: 0.89 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I use git-config(1)'s ‘include.path’ and ‘includeIf.*.path’ settings to set user.email to my @debian.org email address gobally for all my Debian repositories while keeping my private email address as general default: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config: [user] email = [email protected] [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/debian/**/.git"] path = debian.config $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/debian.config: [user] email = [email protected] [merge "dpkg-mergechangelogs"] name = debian/changelog merge driver driver = dpkg-mergechangelogs -m %O %A %B %A This works just fine as far as the git binary is concerned: `git config user.email` returns ‘[email protected]’ in repositories under ‘/path/to/debian’, and ‘[email protected]’ everywhere else. (Unless overwritten in the repo config, of course.) However lintian-brush doesn't seem to understand includeIf.*.path (nor include.path): /path/to/debian/pkg $ lintian-brush --identity Committer identity: Guilhem Moulin <[email protected]> Changelog identity: Guilhem Moulin <[email protected]> If I understand the source correctly, this is because the gitconfig library it's using doesn't understand these settings. It might be a wishlist bug for the library, however lintian-brush could maybe call `git config user.email` instead and let the git binary take care of the parsing and fallback logic? Alternatively, I see it honors the GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variable. I don't want to set this variable globally though; devscripts use DEBEMAIL and I have [email protected]. Since lintian-brush is Debian-specific, wouldn't it make sense to honor DEBEMAIL resp. DEBFULLNAME before GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL resp. GIT_COMMITTER_NAME? If you don't like the above, how about new options username/email in lintian-brush.conf? :-) Thanks for maintaining lintian-brush! Cheers, -- Guilhem. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian-brush depends on: ii devscripts 2.20.5 ii python3 3.9.0-4 ii python3-breezy 3.1.0-8 ii python3-debian 0.1.39 ii python3-debmutate 0.16 ii python3-distro-info 0.24 ii python3-dulwich 0.20.8-1+b1 ii python3-iniparse 0.4-3 ii python3-ruamel.yaml 0.16.12-2 Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends: pn decopy <none> ii dos2unix 7.4.1-1 ii gpg 2.2.20-1 ii libdebhelper-perl 13.3 ii lintian 2.104.0 pn python3-asyncpg <none> pn python3-bs4 <none> pn python3-levenshtein <none> pn python3-pyinotify <none> pn python3-toml <none> Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests: pn breezy-debian <none> pn gnome-pkg-tools <none> ii po-debconf 1.0.21 pn postgresql-common <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Newer versions of dulwich support includeIf, so I believe this should now be fixed. In the future, lintian-brush might migrate to the libgit2 crate or gitoxide, but for now this should address the issue.
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