title 354047 devscripts: dch should warn when using likely incorrect fallback thanks
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 08:07:41PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I've never heard of /etc/email-addresses. Where is it defined? What is > the file format? What programs use it? The format is simple: lines of the form loginname: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored) I thought it was the place where the email addresses of local users were defined for outgoing mail for any program sending e-mail, but > Based on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/02/msg00315.html, this > is an exim-specific file only intended for use by exim. It does indeed seem to be a conffile of and used only by exim. I think it's too much trouble to parse the file manually (and break in the unlikely event that exim decides to do things to its format). So I change this feature request into: Please make dch throw out a warning when that fallback is used. Something like: Guessing your e-mail address. This is probably wrong. Please set the DEBEMAIL and DEBFULLNAME environment variables. Anyone using dch should know how to set variables, or read a man page, so it doesn't have to be too verbose, I think. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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