On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 09:56 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > today I've seen the first time this new lintian warning: > > mailing-list-obsolete-in-debian-infrastructure Debian Med Packaging > Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > I wonder whether we could this set from severity Warning to Pedandic. > The point is that this address works not only as maintainer but rather > as key in several infrastrutural use case like database queries etc. > > The only reason that would convince me that a change is needed would > be > that the redirect to alioth-lists.debian.net would not work any more > at > some foreseable point of time. So please note: I would not mind > about > automatically replacing that address with something non-obsolete since > we try to do some turnover of all (about 1000) Debian Med packages per > release. But once we start this change several tools will stop > working > reliably. This is to much effort for something that looks cosmetical > in > my eyes. So if you insist that this should be at severity warning > I'll > probably rather add a lintian override automatically for all our > packages rather than automatically change the maintainer address. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > Hi, See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958182 Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games sake. *** WWW: https://kathenas.org Twitter: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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