Re: lintian: please downgrade mailing-list-obsolete-in-debian-infrastructure warning

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:44 PM gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> > Could this wiki page be more useful?
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/AliothMigration#Import_mailing_list
>
> Not really; the lists we are talking about _are_ migrated to
> alioth-lists.debian.net which will continue to accept mail for
> @lists.alioth.debian.org.
> And like Andreas, I see no point in changing the mail addresses in
> thousands of packages and various tools and parts of infrastructure.
>

So your expectation is alioth-lists.d.n will become a long term service.

However I read  the announcement[1] 2 years ago differently.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html

> This is not intended to supercede the advice to make use of other
services where appropriate, such as lists.debian.org for eligible
lists, tracker.debian.org or salsa, but does enable other lists
such as package team maintenance lists, to have a home in _the
short term_

Also it writes,
> The service will be reviewed for viability and
usefulness after one release cycle

I'm not sure how the one release cycle is counted.
We have released buster since then. And we are close to bullseye now.

Probably it's time to start thinking about this.

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Shengjing Zhu