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Re: ddts: notification about it translation of the lilo-config description



On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:28:44PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:41:36AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:04:39AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Can these please be turned off by maintainer (debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> > > or packages@qa.debian.org), not by package? New packages become
> > > maintained by QA all the time.
> > 
> > I have not add this feature now. 
> > 
> > But I read this list and if I find a notification, I add this package
> > on the server list myself.
> 
> That's very unreliable, and I'll bet you'll often miss them. That still
> leaves us with being spammed by the first one for each package, too, and
> debian-qa gets enough mail when a package enters its maintainership.

yes you are right...

> > Where can I get a uptoday list of all qa packages?
> 
> Search the Packages files for either possible maintainer address. I
> strongly encourage you to add support for NONOTIFICATION
> maintainer@domain instead, though, as that would alleviate a lot of
> people's annoyances with the ddts - from a brief look at the code, it
> looks like a matter of adding the maintainer address to the database
> plus a couple of extra lines of parsing code.
> 
> Also, remember that if you won't do this you have to take packages out
> of the no-notification list again when they stop being maintained by QA.
> In general your system doesn't cope very well when maintainers change,
> because the preference is almost always on a per-maintainer basis rather
> than on a per-package basis.

ok, this is a 'right way' of the nonotification. I will code this...

Gruss
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