Package: lintian Version: 2.5.51 Severity: normal I believe that the check maintainer-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces should no longer refuse "*@packages.debian.org" in the Maintainer field.
I did patch the code generating the aliases on packages.debian.org to avoid mail loops: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/webwml/packages.git/commit/?h=debian-master&id=5f4f27920e996e521d32dfb5a9693a09348d18d5 The current downsides of using such emails is: - it might generate bounces for ftp-masters for the first emails until the package has been accepted in unstable - Package Tracker subscribers will get duplicate emails from various services Those downsides will need to be fixed but in the mean time I would like the requirement to be relaxed so that we can try on a test package and see what services are generating duplicate emails. Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers oldoldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.28-6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.30-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2+b1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-7 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.24.1-7 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b2 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information