Bug#377282: mail to pkg@PTS not delivered to maintainer by default

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* martin f krafft [Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:17:18 +0200]:

> Great, so I'll try to "clean up" the database then with a script,
> which:

>   1. iterates all packages and extracts sourcepkg:maintainer pairs
>   2. checks whether maintainer is subscribed to sourcepkg@pts
>      a. if no, subscribe the maintainer, thereby getting contact on
>         by default.
>      b. if yes, checks whether the contact keyword is present for
>         the sourcepkg:maintainer pair
>         i) if no, adds the contact keyword to the pair.

So this is a script to be run periodically? What happens when a package
changes maintainer, who unsubscribes the prior maintainer from the
contact address? What if they were previously subscribed?

I haven't read the Wiki page (at least not this year), but I think it's
more reasonable to do what I had in my TODO list last year: have
packages.debian.org deliver mail both to the Maintainer: address, and to
the PTS via _default (or _contact, if so wished by the PTS maintainers).

You save writing a messy script, and there're no issues with subscription
and unsubscription. Then you can concentrate on the other half of the
task (which is of course also necessary with the script approach), that
is: giving packages.debian.org a binary -> source map in an useable
form.

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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