Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:28:55PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Marc,
>
> I am participating in a team-maintained package which is hosted on
> collab-maint.
Which package ?
> We would like to have the Maintainer: address of that
> package to forward to all members of the team,
Why would you want to do that ? I mean, is the package you work on related to
all other maintainers maintaining other packages in collab-maint ?
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/CollabMaint
"not connected to any other teams"
> preferably by setting
> an address there that forwards to the PTS, having team members and
> other interested parties subscribed there.
>
> This seems to be harder to do than I imagined.
>
> <package>@packages.qa.debian.org wants a certain header to be set for
> the message to be forwarded.
>
> <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").
Would modifying lintian be a solution for your problem ?
>
> There do not seem to be public mailing lists on the collab-maint
> Alioth project.
Does this one not work ?
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/collab-maint-devel
"To post a message to all the list members, send email to
collab-maint-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org."
>
> Do we really need to create a dedicated Alioth project just to get a
> mailing list which can be used as Maintainer? Or am I missing a
> policy-compliant possibility to do this with available resources?
I agree that creating an Alioth project just for the mailing list feels
somewhat uncomfortable.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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