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Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages



Le Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:54:26PM +0100, Arno Töll a écrit :
> 
> On 11/19/2012 03:28 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
> > <package>@packages.debian.org seems to add that header automatically
> > before forwarding to the PTS, but using that address as Maintainer: is
> > a lintian _error_ (not even a warning) ("Severity: serious, Certainty:
> > certain").
> 
> Thing is, you can't use the QA forwarder because it relies on your
> source control field to learn about actual forwardings. If you would add
> right that address, the result would be an infinite loop because you
> would essentially forward mail to <package>@packages.debian.org to
> <package>@packages.debian.org. I hope it is clear why this won't work.

Hi all,

I think that the best way forward would be to fix the PTS and remove the
infinite loop.  This would be tremendously useful for many packages that are
collectively maintained.

I have no time to do it myself, but see the following wiki page to contribute.

  http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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