Re: Renaming deity@?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:33:13PM -0300, Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:
> 
> >   What are the mechanics behind this?  An alias would have to be created
> > so the old address worked and the archives would have to be moved;
> > subscribers would have to be moved to the new list, and either the
> > headers would have to be preserved or they'd all have to update their
> > filters.  Anything I left out?
> 
> Dunno if listmasters can do that. Could you get in touch with them and
> see what would be need to make it?

  Sure, I just wanted some confirmation that it sounded like a
reasonable idea to someone who was not me before I bothered them.

  Listmasters: for historical reasons, the apt development list is named
deity@lists.debian.org.  I suspect that most users are able to find it,
but I know that some confusion exists because a user sent mail to
aptitude-devel after failing to find any other apt mailing list.

  It seems to me that it would be much clearer if the apt development
list was named something like apt-devel.  Is a rename feasible at all
from a technical standpoint?  (I have no idea whether I'm talking about
a few config file edits, or some sort of mammoth undertaking -- presumably
this isn't important enough to justify the latter)

    Thanks,
  Daniel