Bug#472102: No author and email defaults

[Gunnar Wolf]

tags 472102 + upstream
thanks

Matt Kraai dijo [Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:02:30PM -0700]:
> Package: libmodule-starter-perl
> Version: 1.470-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> module-starter's --author and --email options are required.  I wish
> the author would default to the user's full name from the GECOS field
> and the email would default to the user's login name @ the contents of
> /etc/mailname, respectively.

Umh... I'm not very happy to implement this one. It does make sense,
but I think I'd end up doing something according to _my_ use case, and
not general enough - i.e. many users won't have anything meaningful in
/etc/mailname (on this laptop, I have 'localdomain') - In my case, I'd
choose $ENV{EMAIL}, but many people also don't have it set.

As for the person name, many people won't even have something
meaningful in the GECOS field (even worse, might not have the field at
all - think this module is also usable in Windows systems).

I'm just pushing the bug upstream as a wishlist request.

http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=34376

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