On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Sounds good. Who else should not be put there? The package maintainer? > We would have to compare e-mail-adresses. Should we use a module for > mormalistion or comparisation, or just use some simple regex hacks? What > modules may we use, BTW - only from stable, or also ones that are only > in unstable?
Generally, yes, but we have installed backports of spamassassin, for instance. Also, since debbugs is now the only service on the machine, I don't think it would be that bad to upgrade selectively to unstable. What do the other owners think(would require asking DSA as well). > Which brings my mind to: Was it ever considered to move all > e-mail-content away out of the source, e.g. in a module or using > something like TT? Yes. I have a start at this(as part of a rewrite), but it was getting too complex. > > However, somebody will have to > > work out the field format: hashes as field values aren't currently > > supported, although there's no reason why they couldn't be made to work. > > Perhaps a one-space indent followed by > > escaped-key+whitespace+escaped-value or something like that would be OK. > What about using some serialisation module for this? I guess there are > quite a few around... See my previous response.
