linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] kbuild: deb-pkg: remove support for "name <email>" form for DEBEMAIL

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Message-ID: <20240704-defiant-gopher-from-mars-7c0ae8@lindesnes>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:28:52 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, riku.voipio@....fi,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] kbuild: deb-pkg: remove support for "name
 <email>" form for DEBEMAIL

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 12:06:13AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> +CC
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 3:03 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Commit d5940c60e057 ("kbuild: deb-pkg improve maintainer address
> > generation") supported the "name <email>" form for DEBEMAIL, with
> > behavior slightly different from devscripts.
> >
> > In Kbuild, if DEBEMAIL has the form "name <email>", it will be used
> > as-is for debian/changelog. DEBFULLNAME will be ignored.
> >
> > In contrast, debchange takes the name from DEBFULLNAME (or NAME) if set,
> > as described in 'man debchange':
> >
> >   If this variable has the form "name <email>", then the maintainer name
> >   will also be taken from here if neither DEBFULLNAME nor NAME is set.
> >
> > This commit removes support for the "name <email> form for DEBEMAIL,
> > as the current behavior is already different from debchange, and the
> > Debian manual suggests setting the email address and name separately in
> > DEBEMAIL and DEBFULLNAME. [1]
> >
> > If there are any complaints about this removal, we can re-add it,
> > with better alignment with the debchange implementation. [2]
> >
> > [1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/ch03.en.html#email-setup
> > [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/blob/v2.23.7/scripts/debchange.pl#L802
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> >  - New patch
> >
> >  scripts/package/mkdebian | 20 +++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > index 589f92b88c42..83c6636fadb8 100755
> > --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > @@ -125,21 +125,15 @@ gen_source ()
> >  rm -rf debian
> >  mkdir debian
> >
> > -email=${DEBEMAIL}
> > -
> > -# use email string directly if it contains <email>
> > -if echo "${email}" | grep -q '<.*>'; then
> > -       maintainer=${email}
> > +user=${KBUILD_BUILD_USER-$(id -nu)}
> > +name=${DEBFULLNAME-${user}}
> > +if [ "${DEBEMAIL:+set}" ]; then
> > +       email=${DEBEMAIL}
> >  else
> > -       # or construct the maintainer string
> > -       user=${KBUILD_BUILD_USER-$(id -nu)}
> > -       name=${DEBFULLNAME-${user}}
> > -       if [ -z "${email}" ]; then
> > -               buildhost=${KBUILD_BUILD_HOST-$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname)}
> > -               email="${user}@...uildhost}"
> > -       fi
> > -       maintainer="${name} <${email}>"
> > +       buildhost=${KBUILD_BUILD_HOST-$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname)}
> > +       email="${user}@...uildhost}"
> >  fi
> > +maintainer="${name} <${email}>"
> >
> >  if [ "$1" = --need-source ]; then
> >         gen_source
> > --
> > 2.43.0

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>