Re: How to best reach the users of a package?
martin f krafft writes ("How to best reach the users of a package?"):
> [stuff]
Mail to root is sadly not really useful any more (and anyway, does
someone with a cluster of 1000 machines really want 100000 mails a
week?). And I'm afraid I'm one of those old farts who thinks that
everything-over-http/html is really quite lame.
How about mailing lists debian-{testing,unstable}-announce, with the
following properties:
* installing testing or unstable causes a debconf notification to
ask the user to subscribe
* the package name is at the start of the subject line
* we provide a simple script which turns the installed packages
into Exim, sieve and procmail filters, as part of some suitable
package, and perhaps run it out of cron.
* messages signed by DDs and every incoming message must have
a Reply-To (usually either <package>@packages.d.o or debian-devel
or something).
Ian.
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