Hi Simon, I think the proper place to discuss this is debian-qa list (please correct me if I'm wrong.
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:30:32AM +0100, Simon Kainz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hello! > > I just got bug #740862 and wanted to ask you about your opinion: > > [1] defines e.g. Bug-Submit as > > "A URL that is the place where new bug reports should be sent." > > I assumed this to be an hyperlink, not an mailto:..@.. entry. > > The definition for Eprint is > > "Hyperlink to the PDF file of the article." > > which clearly defines this to be a Web address. > > So my question is this: If somebody enters a mailto:-link or even an > email address alone, is this what you intended, or should URLs in the > context of upstream-metadata only be Hyperlinks? > > Thanks for your thoughts, My *personal* opinion is that I would be fine with either of these two options: 1. Bug-Submit might allow Hyperlinks and mailto: links 2. Bug-Submit should be a Hyperlink and we should enable another field Bug-Mailto for e-mail addresses. Kind regards Andreas. > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata > > > - -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: Bug#740862: duck: Should cease to pass "mailto:" URLs to curl > Weitersenden-Datum: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:45:02 +0000 > Weitersenden-Von: Axel Beckert <[email protected]> > Weitersenden-An: [email protected] > Weitersenden-CC: [email protected], Simon Kainz <[email protected]> > Datum: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:43:55 +0100 > Von: Axel Beckert <[email protected]> > Antwort an: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, [email protected] > An: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> > > Package: duck > Version: 0.2 > > Hi Simon, > > running duck in Debian's zsh's git repository causes curl errors due to > one "mailto:" URL: > > ~/zsh/zsh $ duck -v > debian/control: Homepage: http://www.zsh.org/: OK > debian/control: Vcs-Browser: > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/zsh.git: OK > debian/control: Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/zsh.git: OK > debian/upstream/metadata: FAQ: URL: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/FAQ/: OK > debian/upstream/metadata: Changelog: URL: > http://zsh.sourceforge.net/releases.html: OK > debian/upstream/metadata: Homepage: URL: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/: OK > debian/upstream/metadata: Repository-Browse: URL: > http://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/: OK > debian/upstream/metadata: Repository: URL: > git://git.code.sf.net/p/zsh/code: ERROR > Curl:1 HTTP:0 Unsupported protocol Protocol git not supported or > disabled in libcurl > > > debian/upstream/metadata: Bug-Submit: URL: mailto:[email protected]: > ERROR > Curl:6 HTTP:0 Couldn't resolve host name Could not resolve host: zsh.org > > > ~/zsh/zsh $ > > (The first error is the same as reported in #740859, the second one is > the relevant one.) > > May it should just check if the domain of an e-mail address exists (A, > AAAA or MX record; or maybe an whois request), but nothing more. > > > - -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), > (110, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.12-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages duck depends on: > ii bzr 2.6.0+bzr6591-1 > ii git 1:1.9.0-1 > ii libfile-which-perl 1.09-1 > ii libparse-debian-packages-perl 0.03-2 > ii libwww-curl-perl 4.17-1 > ii mercurial 2.9.1-1 > ii perl 5.18.2-2+b1 > ii subversion 1.8.8-1 > > duck recommends no packages. > > duck suggests no packages. > > - -- no debconf information > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTGE5CAAoJEBy08PeN7K/pNN8P/1mJ1tsQ0bshU2ETdIi73NYv > gcFgirtDCWMWS8xipWbZYSzVjt81zvlh1H8IzKBGBeNqAgHzVIBQ0Sj65qXpR58S > CQQeZB/SJXmjMVcJBR/R1b5B7t4ApVn4SlZ8XFvV2RHlOWheFMnQfU+Dz5MGA4Un > e3KYGHiQmyk154v55NiUcWwVJQT25IIm0crle1VDvBozokDlwNKo7IEYsZsbKWWC > Kox/4b9I0IX/5oaE0D63tWeH8D73wNpAV5ef0/sM7Y2Q5qmDjdgBO45Dgy4XUDbK > V54ElSaA6Y7CBEXrDc0m9ghVMHGFVzLjudW9MlCFM7nqsCg34z6ooqQ3/QRym8C9 > 8cAjlNsbum5Ke2lRUBfkg9PFDJRd5mNv136WqsPRqfPgcVpZNusIMOMvcj4ciV3E > RucS5g2wLBhDLYm1E1Ibi8djZughj6cv7XcFAeJt6y1zeZH3JdGix61KkeeKExDh > 6+k+fjecZx6zoDau+OfqqAcumIO2oI4PmnHrBGt5q91AipXCk7umpwmxXE59ZNvz > 3sbMmID3zM+t9apM8rdw1uU+r/azIHaBI/OjwZu5G4dEXC9T+bh0Zy8CTRVXQ7uw > xz9lH3Ocn/nnewHLHloAZyja0yfvfgw+GVla7dU1y/pptCMJo0mythzHLdW/AFCD > K+f0rNxKDh8jOgIBGJNh > =296H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

