Bug#955339: tracker.debian.org: improper bounce-process

[Thomas Dickey <tom@invisible-island.net>]

Package: tracker.debian.org
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm the upstream developer/maintainer for several Debian packages, and get
(without problem) over a hundred messages per day.

   * yesterday, I received multiple messages from owner@tracker.debian.org
     notifying me that my subscription was cancelled.

   * I resubscribed to the dozen or so packages which I'd subscribed to.
     That involves email confirmation, of course.

   * on the next activity (a followup for byacc) I _immediately_ received again
     multiple messages, cancelling all subscriptions.

     Bounce processing is supposed to involve retries.  That "immediately"
     tells me that there's something broken on Debian's end.

   * None of the messages provide useful information, aside from a summary
     message which lists the URLs which were cancelled.

     Other than that, there's no indication on why the bounces were triggered,
     nor any discernable way to repair the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.12
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Actually that's irrelevant :-)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

same here :-)