Bug#966530: dak: Please CC WNPP bug in reject mails
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Hi,
It happens from time to time that a package got rejected and the reasons
are given in the rejection mail. Unfortunately this mail might be
accidently deleted or somehow otherwise lost from developers inbox. I'm
team maintaining all my packages but I have observed cases where even
the mailing list archive was lacking the rejection mail. Moreover its
sometimes really hard to find it there. (I have the impression that web
search engines do not reliably indexing Debian mailing list archives any
more - I have even tested buy putting in site:lists.debian.org and a
unique string in some mail which was not found by the market leading web
search engine.)
I was told that DDs can review the rejection mails at
coccia.debian.org:/srv/ftp-master.debian.org/queue/reject
but this was somehow hidden knowledge to me and works only for DDs.
Even when finding the mail in the web archive sometimes there is a
following discussion about the issue where different parties are
involved. Forcing readers to follow all those links is not very
convenient.
My idea for a solution is that if the according WNPP bug is CCed by the
rejection mail it can be
1. easily found at a convenient place
2. easily referenced for further discussion
3. reviewed by everybody not only DDs (we do not hide
problems, right?)
Since it might be extra work for ftpmaster which I'd like to avoid I
could imagine that dak could parse d/changelog for a WNPP bug that is
closed by the upload and add it automatically to the mail header.
Hint: Some UDD parsers contain code to parse a bug number from the
latest changelog paragraph. I'd volunteer to extract this code and
attach to this bug report if this might be some contribution to solve
this bug.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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