Hi, On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 05:38:55PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > The maintainer e-mail address is listed not only on packages.debian.org > but also on "dpkg -s ..." et. al. Users send support e-mail there. Imho > either the mailing lists need to run a lot longer (possibly until > stretch EOL) or (prefered) the old list-address should redirect to the > new one.
Fully ACK. Strictly speaking we need to support these address at least for two release cycles and need a lintian error on packages mentioning any Alioth address to make sure Buster has some alternative Maintainer field in all (well, at least most) packages. > > * May 2018 (with the wheezy EOL): alioth is shut down; mailing list > > archives are unavailable. (A static export/dump will be provided > > in some convenient location.) > > Would it be possible to keep the list-archives online, indexed by > search-engines? These are static pages, aren't they? There is some > interesting information there and removal from the web makes it hard > to find. +1. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de