Contacting the buildd admin of the current build chroot

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

Hi, 

is it possible for a 'building' package to send a mail to the buildd
admin of the current buildd machine (i.e. something like
buildd-admin@localhost)?

Reason: somewhere around Sep-Nov 2005, an alternative symlink was left
by the octave2.1 package in state 'manual'. This means that packages
build-depending on octave2.1 fail to build (if they are built on a
buildd which built octave2.1 in this period). A more explicit
explanation can be found at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg01566.html.

Sending this problem to the buildd-maintainers@buildd.debian.org list
didn't fix it for all machines, as can be seen at
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=octaviz%26ver=0.4.0-26%
26arch=ia64%26stamp=1149076049%26file=log
(search for '2005').

Now, I would like to add something to debian/rules that checks for the
state (auto/manual) of this symlink and sends a mail to the buildd admin
if the state is 'manual'. Thus, only involved admins would be bothered.

Alternatively, I could add 
  update-alternatives --auto octave-config 
to debian/rules; but I don't know if this is acceptable.

Suggestions?

Thanks
	Thomas