Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > >> The guix-patches debbugs thing causes a regression in this workflow by >> rewriting the commit messages to include the debbugs ticket number. >> >> So, a commit that begins with this: >> >> gnu: gitolite: Fix shebangs in hooks. >> >> ... becomes this: >> >> bug#25966: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: gitolite: Fix shebangs in hooks. >> >> Am I missing something, or is debbugs really rewriting the patches? > > Good question. Maybe Glenn and others at help-debbugs have an idea?
I think it's over the top to describe this as "mangling" or "rewriting" patches. The system relies on adding a bug number to the subject, so that replies to the maintainer address can be associated with the right bug. I don't see any prospect of this changing. If you are using a tool that is sensitive to the subject line in emails, I can only suggest using eg a trivial sed command to take out the bug number before passing the mail to your tool.
