Re: Bug#3199: Bizarre message from debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
I looked through /var/list/.etc/rc.request (the Smartlist config file for
request message processing) and tweaked a regular expression which tries
to catch various misspellings of "unsubscription". Here's the diff
results:
tcsh# diff rc.request rc.request~
100c100
< ((un)(sub?)?s(cr|c|r)i|\
---
> ((un|de)(sub?)?s(cr|c|r)i|\
It may not be perfect, as connotations of desubscribe may get through to
the list or otherwise not be processed as unsubscriptions, but the regexp
was catching "description" as a mutated form of unsubscription, and that's
a word which I would expect to see in a bug report.
I'll leave the decision on how to modify the Debian package (or pass along
to the upstream maintainers, if any) with the above patch (or better
versions of it).
I hereby close this bug.
Pete
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From: Anders Chrigstrom <ac@netg.se>
To: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>,
Debian bugs <debian-bugs@pixar.com>
Subject: Re: Bug#3199: Another bizarre message from debian-devel-request
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Hi!
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 03:39 BST
> From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
> To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>
> Cc: Anders Chrigstrom <ac@netg.se>
> Subject: Bug#3199: Another bizarre message from debian-devel-request
>
> Here's another. What on earth is it on about ??
>
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> Transcript of unsubscription request follows:
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> >Subject: Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short description
Here is the problem >-----------
A brief look at the smartlist scripts shows that it tries to be a
little too inteligent. It will recognize de-scription the opposite of
sub-scription as well as trying to find messages that should have been
sent to the request address instead of the submition address.
I'll have to learn some more about procmail, which smartlist is based on,
before i dare modify it.
/Anders
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Subject: Bug#3199: Another bizarre message from debian-devel-request
Here's another. What on earth is it on about ??
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To: ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short description
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:18:48 +0200
WARNING:
Please try to use 'debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org'
the next time when issuing (un)subscribe requests.
You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list.
If this wasn't your intention or you are having problems getting yourself
unsubscribed, reply to this mail now (quoting it entirely (for diagnostic
purposes), and of course adding any comments you see fit).
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>Subject: Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short description
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>From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
>To: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
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>Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Bug#3013: elvis is too granular and has short
description"):
>...
>> I can confirm this. We broke the xlib package out of the rest of X
>> so that we could install X-optional programs on non-X systems without
>> the need for no-X versions of the packages.
>...
>> It was the consensus of the group some time ago when we made this
change.
>> It belongs in the develper guidelines.
>
>It does indeed. It will be in the new manual set I'm writing, in the
>Debian policy manual.
>
>...
>> Aw com'on. It's the only X and no-X package pair left in the entirety
of
>> Debian. All of the rest are gone as far as I can tell.
>
>Indeed. I'd very much like to see the elvis packages fall into line
here.
>
>...
>> Lighten up. We're not going to reject the packages, but we might
attempt
>> to convince you that one of them is redundant.
>
>Quite :-).
>
>Ian.
>
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