Re: missing bug report email messages
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:45:43PM -0500, sharkey@superk.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> I'm a relatively new Debian maintainer, and I've now had several bugs filed
> against some of my packages for which I never received email notification.
> I've also had bugs filed for which I have received notification. I
> was just wondering if anyone else out there was having problems with bug
> notifications or if it's just me.
(You should have sent this to the BTS maintainers, owner@bugs.d.o, too)
> For example, my package cabextract 0.1-1 had one (big) bug for which three
> different people were kind enough to submit bug reports (82870,
At the time #82870 was received, the package had no maintainer in
Maintainers file (in /indices/ directory of our FTP site), because the bug
log says it was only forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, not you
too.
This happens when the package is new, or when there's an unrelated problem
with the Maintainers file...
> 82887,
Ditto.
> 83237)
This one was sent to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Eric Sharkey
<sharkey@debian.org>.
> as well as one unrelated bug (82794).
Like the first two...
> It seems to me that there's a time window between the upload of a new
> package and the BTS's awareness of who that package belongs to. If a user
> files a report during the first few days of the existence of a new
> package, the reports don't get sent.
Yes, but the time window should be no more than half an hour now.
There was a problem with that timing a couple of weeks ago -- we rsynced the
Maintainers file while dinstall was still running, so the copy was always 23
hours out of date. Maybe this was what happened to these bugs?
If you encounter a delay in BTS recognizing you as a maintainer of a package
longer than 24 hours, please inform owner@bugs.d.o and ftpmaster@d.o so that
we can look into what's happened to the Maintainers file.
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