[Bug 400133] [NEW] requestsync: prefer UBUEMAIL etc. environments over DEBEMAIL etc.

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

Currently, requestsync checks for Debian inherited environment variables
DEBEMAIL, DEBSMTP, DEBSMTP_PORT, DEBSMTP_USER, DEBSMTP_PASS.

While this is not inherently wrong, it presumes that someone would be
using the exact same e-mail environments for their Ubuntu work as for
their Debian work, which doesn't always work:

While the GPG key might indeed often be the same one, the e-mail address
would tend to be e.g. user at debian.org to work on Debian and
user at ubuntu.com to work on Ubuntu.

Right now, this differentiation is not possible, because Ubuntu tools
like requestsync use the above existing Debian environment variables.

The suggestion would be to implement support for UBUEMAIL, UBUSMTP,
UBUSMTP_PORT, UBUSMTP_USER, UBUSMTP_PASS. The strategy would be for UBU*
variables to be preferred over DEB* variables and to only fall-back to
DEB* variables if UBU* variables are not found.

Implementing this would greatly simplify the life of people like me who
work in both distributions. :)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 16 11:32:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.75
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic i586

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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requestsync: prefer UBUEMAIL etc. environments over DEBEMAIL etc.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400133
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