On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 15:24:52 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 15:09:08 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > I believe the recommended way to reach maintainers of a package is > > [email protected] with "Package: FOO" for that package. That's the > > contact method that I monitor for "my" packages. > > For bugs in your package, yes, but not every interaction with > maintainers is a bug report against your package. For example if I'm > reporting a bug in pkgconf or awk or something, which is related to > how a gnulib module uses it but is not actually a gnulib bug, I > might X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] to alert the maintainer(s) of > gnulib that it's a failure mode that they're likely to see again, or > ask whether they know a workaround, or similar.
Or for general coordination with maintainers of different packages w/o having to lookup who is maintaining what. Also even for bug related handling, when you reassign a bug from package A to B, the BTS will only send a control acknowledgement mail to B which is not very helpful (as it lacks all context), so to make the reassign visible and keep the B maintainers in the loop the expected convention is to always "Cc: [email protected]". Thanks, Guillem
