[PATCH 7/7] builddeb: Try to get the user full name from the GECOS field

From: Guillem Jover
Date: Sun Sep 20 2020 - 18:48:27 EST


The GECOS field might contain the full name for the username, try to
use that and fallback to using the username if that is empty.

Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/package/mkdebian | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
index ed77d0948fa3..e3d0b7ac9057 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
+++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ if echo $email | grep -q '<.*>'; then
else
# or construct the maintainer string
user=${KBUILD_BUILD_USER-$(id -nu)}
- name=${DEBFULLNAME-$user}
+ name=${DEBFULLNAME-$(getent passwd $user | cut -d: -f5 | cut -d, -f1)}
+ : "${name:=$user}"
if [ -z "$email" ]; then
buildhost=${KBUILD_BUILD_HOST-$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname)}
email="$user@$buildhost"
--
2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d