NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

2012-06-17 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Long storry short: A couple of days ago, I noticed the e-mails send to one address of a maintainer could not be delivered. As that e-mail address was used in several other packages (about 12 IIRC), I opened RC bugs against these packages. Some got fixed by the maintainer, some got fixed by o

Re: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

2012-06-17 Thread Willi Mann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Alexander! Am 2012-06-17 11:30, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > Some got fixed by the maintainer, some got fixed by orphaning the > respective package, some however got closed in NMUs, like the > following: > >> * Non-maintainer upload. *

Re: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

2012-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Willi Mann writes ("Re: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs"): > Am 2012-06-17 11:30, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > >> * Non-maintainer upload. * debian/control: - Maintainer email > >> address was invalid and bounced. Update it to use a va

Re: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

2012-06-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Long storry short: A couple of days ago, I noticed the e-mails send to > one address of a maintainer could not be delivered. As that e-mail > address was used in several other packages (about 12 IIRC), I opened RC > bugs against these packages. > > Please d

Re: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

2012-06-21 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! On 17.06.2012 13:50, Willi Mann wrote: >> Please don't do that! IMHO the proper way to handle these bugs is >> to see, if the maintainer[1] is fixing them himselve. If (s)he >> doesn't, then orphan it. But NMUing to fix the mainteiner address >> of a maintainer who apparently doesn't care

RFC 2047 message header encoding (was: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs)

2012-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > [ Resent with Gurkan's name mangled because of this: > 550 5.6.0 improper use of 8-bit data in message header > And yes I know that the RFC says that everyone must mangle > everything into quoted-unprintable but that's absurd. And > why start enforcinng it now, de

Re: RFC 2047 message header encoding (was: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs)

2012-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("RFC 2047 message header encoding (was: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs)"): > It used to be a great way to catch spam in KOI-8 and various Asian > character sets, although I see from my spam folder that spammers have > caught on and pr