Re: Backports service becoming official
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 15:33, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:01:29PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> >From a reportbug POV, it's not a big deal to redirect the reports for
>> bpo packages to something different than submit@b.d.o. What I need to
>> know is:
>>
>> - the address where to send the bugs
>> - a regular expression (bonus points if already in python format) to
>> precisely identify bpo packages from the package version
>> - if we need to implement it (oh, did I mention that a patch would be
>> awesome?) :)
>
> No, you didn't, but I kinda guessed so :-)
>
> As we're in deep freeze now, it's time to take a decision on that and
> I'd say that it's essentially Don's call. If nothing happens, we can
> keep as a fallback solution that of using Send-To, to be eventually
> advertised in backport rules for Squeeze, setting the submit@ as an
> alias for the mailing list.
Just a note that using Send-To requires to add a bug control file to
each upload to bpo which I consider a huge overkill solution to that.
Regards,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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