Bug#871575: lintian: maintainer-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces should be fixed to allow @packages.debian.org emails
Hi,
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Raphaël,
>
> > I believe that the check maintainer-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces
> > should no longer refuse "*@packages.debian.org" in the Maintainer field.
>
> The regex is currently:
>
> /\@packages\.(?:qa\.)?debian\.org/i
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/tree/lib/Lintian/Check.pm#n196
>
> Shall we keep the qa part or drop the whole thing?
Well, @packages.qa.debian.org just forwards to @tracker.debian.org. Having
@packages.qa.d.o or @tracker.d.o in Maintainer will not cause mail
loops or bounces. It might result in duplicate mails though for tracker
subscribers.
But honestly I would rather get rid of the check entirely. As I said in
my recent debian-devel mail, I would like one day to be able to use
team+foo@tracker.debian.org as Maintainer field.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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