Bug#784131: Please provide information on why the BTS sends mail
Package: debbugs
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I was Cc'd on <handler.s.C.143024086325446.transcript@bugs.debian.org>,
the report of the transaction wherein Ivo De Decker added "stretch" tags
to all bugs currently tagged "sid". Not sure why, I tried to look at the
list of bugs in that mail, but it's just way too large. I tried going to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;tag=sid;submitter=wouter%40debian.org
(since it's that mail address that's listed), but that didn't reveal
anything. Eventually, I figured out that it was due to packages of which
I am the maintainer and which were tagged "sid"; I hadn't realized, at
first, that I would get Cc'd for those, too (but in hindsight, it makes
sense).
It would be useful if the processing mail contained this information
somehow. Proposal: change the "Cc:" list so that it contains the
relevant bugs (and possibly also the role of the person in question in
relation to the bug) as a comment to the relevant email address; e.g.,
(maint #XXXXXX, #XXXXXX; submit #XXXXXX) foo@bar.com
or something along those lines.
Thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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