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Re: Bug#807073: tracker.debian.org: duplicate news entries



Hi,

On Fri, 04 Dec 2015, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> there seems to be a recent regression in the handling of news, causing duplicates.
> Packages migrating to testing now produce three news entries like e.g. [1-4]:
> "[2015-12-04] ffmpeg 7:2.8.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)"
> 
> It only produced one news entry for the last migration ten days ago.

Yes, I was expecting that kind of regression, see
https://lists.debian.org/20151204222025.GA14460@home.ouaza.com

So the 3 copies are actually:
- one sent to ffmpeg@packages.debian.org (which forwards to
  ffmpeg_contact@packages.qa.debian.org)
- one sent to _auto@packages.debian.org to generate the news
  on the old tracker, I disabled the forwarding of this one
  to the new tracker.
- one sent to ffmpeg_summary@packages.qa.debian.org

So it means that subscribers to the PTS actually got two copies of such
mails... under two different keywords.

We should fix this now.

Dear, debian-release can you drop the Bcc to
<package>_summary@packages.qa.debian.org on mails emitted by Debian
Testing watch ?

This change is fine:
- subscribers to the old PTS still get a copy via the "contact" keyword
- subscribers to the new PTS get a copy via the summary keyword because
  the new PTS does its own classification and recognizes the mails it gets
- anyway, I'll soon move subscriptions from the old PTS to the new one

Once this is fixed I'll try to clean up the duplicate news entries.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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