On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:04:04AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:54:26PM +0100, Arno Töll a écrit : > > > > On 11/19/2012 03:28 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > > > <package>@packages.debian.org seems to add that header automatically > > > before forwarding to the PTS, but using that address as Maintainer: is > > > a lintian _error_ (not even a warning) ("Severity: serious, Certainty: > > > certain"). > > > > Thing is, you can't use the QA forwarder because it relies on your > > source control field to learn about actual forwardings. If you would add > > right that address, the result would be an infinite loop because you > > would essentially forward mail to <package>@packages.debian.org to > > <package>@packages.debian.org. I hope it is clear why this won't work. > > Hi all, > > I think that the best way forward would be to fix the PTS and remove the > infinite loop. This would be tremendously useful for many packages that are > collectively maintained.
This seems pretty silly - the Maintainer: field should be useful, not a hack just to get email (more preceisely, it says: The maintainer of this package is the maintainer of this package) I'd much rather see something like what Arno is talking about, at least that's a *bit* more descriptive and less tautological > > I have no time to do it myself, but see the following wiki page to contribute. > > http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121119230404.gb10...@falafel.plessy.net > Cheery-bye, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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