Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although
> > I'm not proposing a particular format):
> 
> From my point of view, such information would ideally be:
> 
>   o not centrally controlled, but package/maintainer(s) controlled[0]
>   o trivial (both in terms of code and CPU use) for katie to obtain[1]
>   o not unnecessarily waste space in places it's not needed[2]
>  
> I'd love to see suggestions that satisfy those criteria, but was
> eventually someday going to fall back on something like Julian just
> suggested if I couldn't find anything better.

The thought I had would be in the source paragraph of the control
file, but that fails [2].  However, I really don't know how many
packages we're talking about, and therefore whether it would actually
be much of a problem.

   Julian

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