Re: Subscribing to bugs does not work

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:32:18PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Cord Beermann <cord@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > we don't allow mailinglists sending to mailinglists.
> 
> So the bugs are treated as mailinglists?  It would be really nice if
> lists on lists.debian.org, as well as on alioth, could subscribe to
> bugs.  After all, being the maintainer of a related package is one of
> the main reasons why a DD would want to subscribe to a bug, and for the
> tetex packages, the maintainer is
> 
> $ apt-cache show tetex-bin | grep ^Maintainer
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>

Alternatively, set up the file .forward-tetex-bugs in your home
directory on master.d.o containing the line:

debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org

and then subscribe frank-tetex-bugs@debian.org to the bug.

   Julian