Hi.
I've written a Perl[0] script that let me "subscribe" to bugs by
downloading the mbox file (and applying changes when needed).
[0] http://javierlinares.com/debian/files/bug2mbox
One example could be (look at the sizes):
01:07 javier@nomada:~/debian/bugs$ l
total 52
-rw-r--r-- 1 javier javier 11237 mar 9 13:13 118787.mbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 javier javier 10968 mar 8 17:36 151847.mbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 javier javier 18104 mar 8 17:36 172141.mbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 javier javier 10807 mar 10 01:05 bug2mbox
01:07 javier@nomada:~/debian/bugs$ ./bug2mbox --update
bug #118787: Updated (no new messages).
bug #151847: Updated (3 new messages).
bug #172141: Updated (2 new messages).
01:07 javier@nomada:~/debian/bugs$ l
total 87
-rw-r--r-- 1 javier javier 11237 mar 9 13:13 118787.mbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 javier javier 25261 mar 10 01:07 151847.mbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 javier javier 38221 mar 10 01:07 172141.mbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 javier javier 10807 mar 10 01:05 bug2mbox
01:07 javier@nomada:~/debian/bugs$
Actually, the script let me download the mbox files attending to:
--get <bug1> <bug2> ... <bugN>
--package <package>, -p <package>
--maintainer <maintainer>, -m <maintainer>
--source <package>, -s <package>
--from <submitter>, -f <submitter>
If you use Mutt you can insert something like:
mailboxes `echo $HOME/debian/bugs/*.mbox`
to your ~/.muttrc and and Mutt will tell you when you have new messages in
the bugs you are following. The script don't override the messages you
already have, so read messages will go on read messages after updating and,
for example, you can have permanent flagged messages.
I'm not a professional programmer and I'm not a Perl programmer, it can be
improved. And I don't think it's _the_ solution but, at least, that's my
solution :-).
Bye.
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