At Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:46:14 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > If I set NAME=silly, then it works. > > I do not set $NAME nor $DEBFULLNAME. I expect that to be gotten from > the GECOS field in nss (i.e. /etc/passwd). > > AFAIK $EMAIL can be "foo <b...@example.net>" instead of just > "b...@example.net", but due to assumptions like the above, I don't > currently do that.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure what should happen in that case. I think I have seen code try to pull the name of of /etc/password, and if that fails, default to the the username... At the very least I can update the --help text for --maintainer and the error text so that it tells you what it expects. - jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-haskell-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
