Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a field in debian/control, like eg. Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... to have some...@debian.org automatically subscribed to the bugs for this package, much

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Toni Mueller writes: > while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me > with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a > field in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... In the source package stanza, or the binary package stanza? >

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, Toni Mueller wrote: > in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... This is the info which IMHO belongs to PTS and should stay there. > I have found out that there are other ways to get at the bug reports > for some random package, but this could probably simplify things f

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 11.08.2010 at 17:48:09 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > > in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... > This is the info which IMHO belongs to PTS and should stay there. after rethinking the issue, I agree that it's better to not add a

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Finney writes: > Toni Mueller writes: > >> while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me >> with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a >> field in debian/control, like eg. >> >> Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... > > In the source package stanza,

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically > unsubscribe people when their package is superceeded. That should not be too hard to implement without an extra control field. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically >> unsubscribe people when their package is superceeded. > > That should not be too hard to implement without an extra control field. How? The cha

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/13/2010 06:22 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> >>> The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically >>> unsubscribe people when their package is superceeded. >> >> That should not be too ha

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernd Zeimetz writes ("Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors"): > On 08/13/2010 06:22 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > How? The changes file might not contain the sponsor not the control > > file. You can get the keyid of the sponsor from the changes file