Package: devscripts Version: 2.16.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Both debrelease and debsign claim in their documentation that the environment variable DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR is equivalent to setting the command line option --debs-dir, however both scripts seem to ignore the env variable. $ DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR=../build-area debsign -S debsign: Can't find or can't read changes file ! $ debsign --debs-dir=../build-area -S <normal output> $ DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR=../build-area debrelease -S mentors debrelease: could not find/read changes file ../<package>_source.changes! $ debrelease --debs-dir=../build-area -S mentors <normal output> As an aside I note that the two scripts report the same error with different text, and that the message given by debrelease is more helpful in that it includes the exact filename it's looking for. Cheers, Carl -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER="dput" -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.18.7 ii libc6 2.22-12 ii perl 5.22.2-1 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.2.13 ii at 3.1.18-2 ii curl 7.47.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-2 ii debian-keyring 2016.06.19 ii dput 0.9.6.4 ii equivs 2.0.9+nmu1 ii fakeroot 1.20.2-2 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii gnupg 1.4.20-6 ii gnupg2 2.1.11-7 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.14 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.06-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.19-1 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libwww-perl 6.15-1 ii lintian 2.5.45 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii patch 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.28 ii python3-magic 1:5.25-2 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 ii strace 4.12-3 ii unzip 6.0-20 ii wdiff 1.2.2-1+b1 ii wget 1.18-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3 ii build-essential 12.2 pn cvs-buildpackage <none> pn devscripts-el <none> pn diffoscope <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn gnuplot <none> ii gpgv 1.4.20-6 ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1 ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-1 ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.03-1 pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 pn libyaml-syck-perl <none> pn mozilla-devscripts <none> ii mutt 1.6.0-1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.2p2-5 ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.5+nmu1 ii w3m 0.5.3-28 -- no debconf information