Samuel Thibault wrote on Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 17:29:53 +0100: > This happens again and again... Quite a few maintainers don't seem to > realize that mails sent to n...@bugs.debian.org are not sent to the bug > submitter, and the bug tracking thus halts down completely when the > maintainer asks for information only to the bot, and not to the human. > > I don't know how it happens that maintainers get to reply only to > n...@bugs.debian.org , my only guess is that they just don't know that > it's not sufficient to mail the bug, so I guess the only solution is to > repeat it over and over :/
>From the other end, I have to do, every time I finish using reportbug, < Poll for bug number? > y [wait three minutes] [copy-paste bug number] > bts subscribe <paste> in order to be able to reply to questions the maintainers may address to me. I would love for this procedure to not be needed: it's an avoidable overhead. Cheers, Daniel (And of course, after subscribing, I need to check the bug report archives to see if the maintainer had replied before my subscription went through...)