Re: Cryptic messages from installers

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

> On 18 Apr 2001, James Troup wrote:
> 
> > Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> >
> > > I think the problem is, that you even receive such mails. queue
> > > daemon should be taught about new .changes format it seems
> >
> > Perhaps, but it's not the problem here; the problem is that an m68k
> > porter is not using dpkg-buildpackage's -m option.  (See the .changes
> > file in incoming/DONE/ on ftp-master...)
> 
> The real problem is that the upload queue notifies the person in the
> Maintainer field, not the person who gpg-signed the upload...
> 
> Would be very difficult for katie to parse the gpg signature to see
> who should be notified?

katie != upload queue.  But in any event doing this would be horribly
broken; mail should be sent to the relevant address given, not by
making broken assumptions based on random things like the signature on
the file.

For a real world example: buildd uploads are signed by real
maintainers but they do _not_ want either the upload queue or katie to
mail them about the uploads; that mail needs to go to the Maintainer:
field, i.e. the buildd so it can be processed.

-- 
James