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dh-make package

  1. Bug #875705
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 875705

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 875705] Re: dh_make in Oneiric outputs wrong content to changelog

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:06:40PM -0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report, is LOGNAME a standard variable exported
> by all login managers something specific to gdm other things started
> depending on?

It is specified by POSIX:

  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_03

"The system shall initialize this variable at the time of login to be
the user's login name."