#1031913 brz-debian: deb-new-upstream does not respect setting in ${HOME}/.gitconfig

Package:
brz-debian
Source:
brz-debian
Submitter:
Andreas Tille
Date:
2023-02-25 08:54:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1031913#5
Date:
2023-02-25 08:50:53 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

thanks to Jelmer Vernooij who pointed me to deb-new-upstream which is
used in janitor I tried this program as a promising replacement for
manually parsing uscan output in routine-update.

I realised that simply calling deb-new-upstream does some commits to
an existing Git repository with authorship

    <localuser@localhost>

This is extremely unusual since I've set

$ head -n3 ${HOME}/.gitconfig
[user]
        name = Andreas Tille
        email = tille@debian.org

and all commits should simply belong to my Debian ID.  I woud expect
that any Git commits done ony my system are respecting my .gitconfig.
Am I missing something?

Kind regards
    Andreas.