Public bug reported: I can't imagine that this is the first time I've used sponsor-patch where the contributor had already correctly set the maintainer field, so this seems to be a regression somewhere... I'd guess that update- maintainer is exiting with the wrong status.
$ sponsor-patch -vs 1002853 sponsor-patch: I: cd /tmp/sponsor-patch-wf1Bh7 sponsor-patch: I: Selected Ubuntu task: bsdiff (Ubuntu): New sponsor-patch: I: Downloading bsdiff_4.3-13.dsc... sponsor-patch: I: Downloading bsdiff_4.3.orig.tar.gz... sponsor-patch: I: Downloading bsdiff_4.3-13.debian.tar.gz... sponsor-patch: I: Downloading bsdiff.debdiff. sponsor-patch: I: Ubuntu package: bsdiff sponsor-patch: I: The task is a merge request. sponsor-patch: I: dpkg-source --no-preparation -x /tmp/sponsor-patch-wf1Bh7/bsdiff_4.3-13.dsc dpkg-source: info: extracting bsdiff in bsdiff-4.3 dpkg-source: info: unpacking bsdiff_4.3.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: unpacking bsdiff_4.3-13.debian.tar.gz sponsor-patch: I: cd bsdiff-4.3 sponsor-patch: I: patch --merge --force -p 1 -i /tmp/sponsor-patch-wf1Bh7/bsdiff.debdiff patching file debian/changelog patching file debian/control patching file debian/rules sponsor-patch: I: update-maintainer The Maintainer email is set to an ubuntu.com address. Doing nothing. sponsor-patch: Error: update-maintainer script failed. $ policy ubuntu-dev-tools ubuntu-dev-tools: Installed: 0.142~daily+bzr1315~precise1 Candidate: 0.142~daily+bzr1315~precise1 Version table: *** 0.142~daily+bzr1315~precise1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/udt-developers/daily/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.141 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages ** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002999 Title: [sponsor-patch/update-maintainer] Failing when maintainer already is correctly set To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-dev-tools/+bug/1002999/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs