Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.8.12.2 Severity: normal When generating patches we don't generate a From line anymore like:
From f57c88e2e7a94d3f623ee64e3c59adbdfeb9404a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 This is bad since patches can't be easily forwarded with "mutt -f patchname" anymore easily. This got broken by c661c7153783c79c45fbe63d828b03ea0a788215 in 2013. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.17.0 ii git 1:2.11.0-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii python-dateutil 2.5.3-2 ii python-pkg-resources 33.1.1-1 ii python-six 1.10.0-3 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii cowbuilder 0.84 ii pbuilder 0.228.3 ii pristine-tar 1.37 ii python-requests 2.12.4-1 ii sbuild 0.73.0-2 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: ii python-notify 0.1.1-4 ii sudo 1.8.19p1-1 ii unzip 6.0-21 -- no debconf information
