Re: [Bug#334632] Your message to Pkg-openssl-devel awaits moderator approval
sean finney <seanius@debian.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:26:16PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
>> I consider this a bug; reports sent to <package>@packages.debian.org
>> should go straight through to a maintainer or list of maintainers...
>
> yeah. i'd say it's bad practice to have the Maintainer
> field of a package not go directly to the maintainer(s).
Some packages have the Maintainer: field set to a list, e.g. dpkg, apt,
tetex, probably most java packages.
> what
> exactly does it gain the maintainer to have the mail moderated?
Nothing; I'd say the list must be unmoderated. On the other hand, it's
good that lots of spam to the lists is rejected, and there's probably a
grey area.
>> However, this appears to be sent to an upstream development mailing
>> list, and it would appear my mail has not got through.
>
> are you sure? looks like an alioth list to me :)
At least the alioth lists should be configured so that mail forwarded
from the BTS, packages.debian.org, qa.debian.org and maybe others should
be let through without manual action.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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